Bug 11101

Summary:	Uppercase letters in ebuild names
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Felipe Ghellar <fghellar>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Felipe Ghellar 2002-11-22 14:13:17 UTC

(Note: this isn't anything blocking, just an annoyance.)

According to the Gentoo Linux Developers HOWTO
(http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml), ebuild names should contain
only lowercase letters:

"Naming ebuild Files 

Ebuild file names consist of four logical sections:

The first section is the package name, which should only contain lowercase
letters, the digits 0-9, and any number of single hyphen ('-') characters. Some
examples are util-linux, sysklogd and glibc."

But running 

# find /usr/portage/ -name "*[A-Z]*.ebuild" | wc -l

shows that there are currently 450 ebuilds in the portage tree with uppercase
letters in their names. The actual annoyance is that e.g.

# emerge -s linneighborhood

succeeds in finding net-misc/LinNeighborhood, but

# emerge -p linneighborhood

does not.

IMHO, it would be good to either enforce the naming convention or make Portage
ignore case completely.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-11-22 15:37:44 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2025 ***