[csw-devel] Package names with dashes

[Trygve Laugstøl]

Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hi Trygve,
> 
> Am 15.11.2008 um 21:08 schrieb Peter Bonivart:
>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Trygve Laugstøl  
>> <trygvel at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>> I'm working on packaging Hudson which is a server that can control  
>>> slave
>>> nodes. So I made a "hudson" package and wanted to create a
>>> "hudson-slave" node, but is fails:
>>>
>>> ==> Checking blastwave compilance: CSWhudson-slave
>> You can't use dashes in the package name. Replace it with underscore
>> if you need to.
>>
>> http://www.opencsw.org/standards/build#versioning
> 
> For clarification: You can not use dashes in the catalog name.
> Use underscores instead of dashes in the catalog. You can
> (and should!) use dashes in package names.
> In GAR this is 'bitname' for the catalog and 'pkgname' for
> the package in the .gspec-file.

Uh, that is really lame. Why is the catalog imposing more rules that pkg 
itself is? Shouldn't this be as easy as having several fields in the 
catalog instead of one huge one?

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Trygve