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

From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 15, 2005, 17:19 UTC
Message-ID: <625fc13d0511150919l48786dcam6fda56bc9d3a9fa0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <437A09F2.8080109@zytor.com>

On 11/15/05, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

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> Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On 11/15/05, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> 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-<foo> 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.

%preun section that does rpm -e of the packages it brings in. But that is a hack that would cause some to become violently ill. Perhaps it's an issue not worth worrying about.

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> > 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".

Sweet.

josh