On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 7:04 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 18:44, Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 29. 04. 20 21:42, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
>> >> What you say is true. I still don't agree that "python3.9" as a package
>> >> name
>> >> annoys humans.
>> > I am not a package pro, but simply reading along as an interested human
>> > user. To me, adding
>> > periods in package names can be confusing.
>>
>> My sentence was about "python3.9" not being more annoying than "python-3.9".
>>
>> I wonder, why do you consider periods in names confusing?
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>> We have around ~100 source package names with dot. Most of them have
>> versions, e.g.:
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>> clang9.0
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> The standard confusing part is if you are used to seeing a . only in the
> version or release parts.. you scan down and see
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> dotnet3.1-3.1.2-40
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> my usual mistake is where I do a stupid programming and do something like
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> ls -1 | awk '{split($0,a,"."); print a[1]}' | whatever I needed for just the
> names of rpms
>
> which for most packages will give me the Name-Ver[.sion removed]. it is lazy
> script programming but it works often enough that my brain wants it to work
> all the time than doing something like
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> ls -1 *rpm | xargs rpm --qf='%{NAME}\n' -qp | whatever i needed for just the
> names of the rpms.
>
Splitting on the second to last dash of an rpm file name will *always*
give you the name on the left side, and the version-release on the
right side, so I usually do a split that way. :)
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