On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:26, Alan Cox <alan(a)lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> By virtue of that link, we have reduced the problem to simply
ASCII
> uppercase and ASCII lowercase character case insensitivity for
> installing packages via Yum. There is no need to generalise the issue
> to filenames, other operating systems, non-ASCII languages, or
> anything else.
Fedora naming guidelines only apply to Fedora, so the answer is you
haven't because of third party repositories. In fact you actually hit
some problems with this and have to recompile the Fedora RPM packages and
tweak them a bit sometimes because they otherwise blow up on what every
other distro considers a valid RPM version character of '~'
The ~ character is fine, it would not be affected by case insensitivity.
Please point to any RPM package that uses non-ASCII characters in the
package name, from any repo.
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