On 03/11/2011 09:13 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:39, Ralf
Corsepius<rc040203(a)freenet.de> wrote:
> On 03/11/2011 07:28 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Please point to any RPM package that uses non-ASCII characters in the
>> package name, from any repo.
> You hardly will find any, because probably all rpm-based distros apply
> rules similar to that of Fedora (e.g. SUSE does as well) and because
> people trying to implement them will be facing technically difficulties
> at various places.
>
> Anyway, what you will find is tarball-names containing non-ASCII
> characters, which would require transliteration to make these tarballs'
> names to fit into Fedora's package-naming rules.
>
Yum doesn't work with tarballs.
rpmbuild does, so do the Fedora guidelines.
Ralf