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Re: [PATCH] git-core-foo -> git-foo, except the core package

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JBJosh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 15, 2005, 14:41 UTC
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On 11/15/05, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
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> 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-<foo> will still remain. Maybe not that big of a deal, but it might not be obvious to some.

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.

josh
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