From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-core-foo -> git-foo, except the core package Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:16:50 -0800 Message-ID: <437A09F2.8080109@zytor.com> References: <43797C41.2050809@zytor.com> <625fc13d0511150641k353d7128pf72f3542da601104@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 15 17:19:01 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ec3Uu-0002xG-6q for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:17:28 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751444AbVKOQQ5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:16:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751451AbVKOQQ5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:16:57 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:60034 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751444AbVKOQQ4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:16:56 -0500 Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-180-238-27.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.238.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jAFGGoHM029589 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:16:52 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Josh Boyer In-Reply-To: <625fc13d0511150641k353d7128pf72f3542da601104@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Josh Boyer wrote: > On 11/15/05, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>This patch renames the tarball "git" rather than "git-core", and changes >>the names of various packages from git-core-foo to git-foo. git-core is >>still the true core package; an empty RPM package named "git" pulls in >>ALL the git packages -- this makes updates work correctly, and allows >>"yum install git" to do the obvious thing. > > What about "yum remove git" ? I don't think that will work quite so > well. The "git" package will be removed just fine since nothing > depends on it, but git- will still remain. Maybe not that big of > a deal, but it might not be obvious to some. True. If you have a solution to that, I'd love to hear it. Note that having the core package depend on everything else is not acceptable. > Also, what about http://www.gnu.org/software/git/git.html ? I seem to > recall that was the reason the name git-core was used in the first > place. It's changing its name to "gitfm". -hpa