On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:07 AM, James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yum (which was based off of the Yellow Dog Unix system for Macs) was
Really? I thought it was Yellow Dog Linux for Power architecture
(which Macs were at the time).
built on a case sensitive file system. Thus, to this day, it
remains
case sensitive. You can do things like
new_file_name = lower(file with mixed and upper case)
mv 'file with mixed and upper case' $new_file_name
yum $new_file_name
In addition, at the core of ASCII and UTF-8 A != a. I'm sure it's
easier to be case sensitive, else you need additional overhead.
-c