Re: Package name conflict

2017-11-28 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 20:16, Przemek Klosowski wrote: [...] > Microsoft Guidelines Support Library (your package) is the third > hit. Why don't you just name it 'guideline-support-library'? I > think it'll be clearer this way. Seconded, excellent idea. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora htt

Re: Package name conflict

2017-11-28 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 11/28/2017 10:23 AM, Vitaly Zaitsev wrote: I want to add a new package GSL (header-only C++ library: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FMicrosoft%2FGSL&data=02%7C01%7Cprzemek.klosowski%40nist.gov%7C770bea95b2264237725d08d5367429ca%7C2ab5d82fd8fa4797a

Re: Package name conflict

2017-11-28 Thread nicolas . mailhot
Hi, Many packaging ecosystems use vendor name in package name to disambiguate, though they are usually prepended If the vendor didn't want its name associated with the software it could publish through neutral entities such as Apache, Eclipse, and so on. (never add a vendor name not pro-eminen

Re: Package name conflict

2017-11-28 Thread Artur Iwicki
I think that the vendor name should go at the beginning of the package name, since suffixes are mostly used in Fedora to denote subpackages, like -data, -docs, -devel, or modules, plugins, and such. We have a couple of "google-*" font packages, so this usage of the vendor name should be okay -

Re: Package name conflict

2017-11-28 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
Hi, Vitaly. On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 16:23, Vitaly Zaitsev wrote: > I want to add a new package GSL (header-only C++ library: > https://github.com/Microsoft/GSL) to repository, but another > package with the same name (gsl) already exists in Fedora. > I decided to rename my new package to g

Re: Package name conflict

2017-11-28 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Vitaly Zaitsev wrote: > Hello all. > > I want to add a new package GSL (header-only C++ library: > https://github.com/Microsoft/GSL) to repository, but another package with > the same name (gsl) already exists in Fedora. I decided to rename my new > package to gsl

Package name conflict

2017-11-28 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev
Hello all. I want to add a new package GSL (header-only C++ library: https://github.com/Microsoft/GSL) to repository, but another package with the same name (gsl) already exists in Fedora. I decided to rename my new package to gsl-microsoft. Is it okay to use Microsoft in package name or I need

Re: Package name conflict with retired package

2013-09-19 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: >> We have no ability to rename a package in koji. im not opposed to >> reusing the name. Just need some way to ensure its very clear the old >> and new are different. Likely need to add a conflicts with the old one. >> hopefully versions allow f

Re: Package name conflict with retired package

2013-09-19 Thread Sandro Mani
We have no ability to rename a package in koji. im not opposed to reusing the name. Just need some way to ensure its very clear the old and new are different. Likely need to add a conflicts with the old one. hopefully versions allow for upgrade okay, if not an epoch will need to be added. Dennis

Re: Package name conflict with retired package

2013-09-19 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:00:43 -0700 Toshio Kuratomi escribió: > On Sep 19, 2013 12:53 PM, "Michael Schwendt" > wrote: > > > > On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:51:28 +0200, Sandro Mani wrote: > > > > > > > > On 13

Re: Package name conflict with retired package

2013-09-19 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:51:28 +0200, Sandro Mani wrote: > > On 13.09.2013 11:48, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:54:49 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > >> On 09/12/2013 10:40 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: > >> > >>> I just posted a review for avl (the Aerodynamic and flight-dynamic >

Re: Package name conflict with retired package

2013-09-19 Thread Sandro Mani
> A few years ago, there would have been a helpful answer from the admins > who would/wouldn't process such requests. I don't know whether it's possible > to not only rename a git repo but also the stuff within pkgdb and koji. Cc'd Dennis to see if this can happen in koji. If it can't I woul

Re: Package name conflict with retired package

2013-09-19 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 01:00:43PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Cc'd Dennis to see if this can happen in koji. If it can't I would not be > opposed to the new package unretiring the name and having the pkgdb entry > updated to the new package. The git history would have both the old > package

Re: Package name conflict with retired package

2013-09-19 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Sep 19, 2013 12:53 PM, "Michael Schwendt" wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:51:28 +0200, Sandro Mani wrote: > > > > > On 13.09.2013 11:48, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:54:49 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > > > >> On 09/12/2013 10:40 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: > > >> > > >

Re: Package name conflict with retired package

2013-09-13 Thread Sandro Mani
On 13.09.2013 11:48, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:54:49 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: On 09/12/2013 10:40 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: I just posted a review for avl (the Aerodynamic and flight-dynamic analysis of rigid aircrafts package) [1], and the reviewer noticed that it conf

Re: Package name conflict with retired package

2013-09-13 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:54:49 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 09/12/2013 10:40 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: > > > I just posted a review for avl (the Aerodynamic and flight-dynamic > > analysis of rigid aircrafts package) [1], and the reviewer noticed that > > it conflicts with the retired avl package

Re: Package name conflict with retired package

2013-09-13 Thread Sandro Mani
On 13.09.2013 09:54, Florian Weimer wrote: On 09/12/2013 10:40 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: I just posted a review for avl (the Aerodynamic and flight-dynamic analysis of rigid aircrafts package) [1], and the reviewer noticed that it conflicts with the retired avl package (the AVL tree manipulation

Re: Package name conflict with retired package

2013-09-13 Thread Anshu Prateek
Also, I guess it would be nice to have a package name that gives some indication of what it is about (unless ofcourse the name itself is well and widely known ) On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 09/12/2013 10:40 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: > > I just posted a review for a

Re: Package name conflict with retired package

2013-09-13 Thread Florian Weimer
On 09/12/2013 10:40 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: I just posted a review for avl (the Aerodynamic and flight-dynamic analysis of rigid aircrafts package) [1], and the reviewer noticed that it conflicts with the retired avl package (the AVL tree manipulation library). How should one proceed in such situ

Package name conflict with retired package

2013-09-12 Thread Sandro Mani
Hi, I just posted a review for avl (the Aerodynamic and flight-dynamic analysis of rigid aircrafts package) [1], and the reviewer noticed that it conflicts with the retired avl package (the AVL tree manipulation library). How should one proceed in such situations? Does the old repository need