From: "André Draszik" <git@andred.net>
To: OE Core mailing list <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: could OE maybe point out when a recipe has upper case letters in it?
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 09:43:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1483955012.7594.4.camel@andred.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1701060831140.32403@ca624034.mitel.com>
On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 08:34 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> in a fit of silliness, i created some packagegroup recipes and,
> without thinking, had the string "OE" as part of the recipe file name,
> and was baffled when i kept getting errors that trying to add that
> packagegroup to my image was failing due to an "empty" package.
>
> it was doubly mystifying since i had been using wind river linux
> where the packagegroup names contained the string "WRL" and that
> worked just fine. changing the "OE" to "oe" appears to have solved the
> problem.
>
> thoughts? why "WRL" worked with wind river linux, and "OE" failed
> with a poky build? i don't plan on making that mistake again.
I think this depends on the package format used - AFAIR rpm allows capital
letters in package names, whereas ipk and deb don't.
Cheers,
A.
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2017-01-06 13:34 could OE maybe point out when a recipe has upper case letters in it? Robert P. J. Day
2017-01-09 9:43 ` André Draszik [this message]
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