Re: [rh-rpm] Case Sensitivity

[Bill Crawford <rpm billemon org uk>]

On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Greg Wright wrote:

> Yes, I know it matters, but why should RPM not keep records just in lower
> case ? like who would even try having  mysql-1 and MySQL-1?, then an rpm -e
> or a SRPM build will not break when a req. is not found due to CAPs, so why
> not have RPM squash it to lower in the database on install.

 You don't really (honest!) want to do this.  The packages may have
differences that will matter, so allowing "either" is probably quite
dangerous anyway.