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List:       openpkg-dev
Subject:    Re: Problems with '+' in package names ?
From:       Thomas Lotterer <thl () dev ! de ! cw ! com>
Date:       2005-02-21 20:04:36
Message-ID: 20050221200436.GA52537 () dev ! de ! cw ! com
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On Mon, Feb 21, 2005, Matthias Kurz wrote:

> Hi.
> Are there problems with '+' in package names ?
> 
When we introduced RPM 4.2.1 in OpenPKG 2.0 we encountered
occasional strange behavior where RPM allowed two packages whose
name-version-release combination contained a '+' could coexist given
they share the same prefix before the '+' character. A later version of
a package did not replace its predecessor as expected but was added. We
never digged deeper into the issue to find out whether it is a bug or
a "package addition" feature. We decided to stay away from it for new
packages by tightening speclint [1] and removing this character from
some existing packages [2]. Along with this issue we learned about the
interesting --allmatches [3] option which makes RPM erase all packages
matching all packages sharing a common prefix.

[1] http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=13473
[2] http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=15203 (example)
[3] http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=14602

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