[csw-devel] Package names with dashes

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Sat Nov 15 23:49:42 CET 2008


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.


Best regards

   -- Dago


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