Re: [CentOS-devel] Proposal: Add pkg- prefix to package names in CentOS dist-git

* Josh Boyer:

On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 7:35 AM Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com wrote:

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Gitlab cannot support an undocumented set of Git repository names. Currently, this list appears to contain at least these names:

  badges
  blame
  blob
  builds
  commits
  create
  create_dir
  edit
  files
  find_file
  new
  preview
  raw
  refs
  tree
  update
  wikis

There may be additional constraints for:

  environments
  gitlab-lfs
  info

We have at least one collision today, tree.

One way to avoid these problems is to prefix all package names with “pkg-”. This way, future collisions become extremely unlikely, at the cost of a one-time large rename.

Are you suggesting this for all packages in Stream, or just the subset that conflicts with Gitlab reserved names?

The only way to get rid of the exceptions is to do it for all packages.

Thanks, Florian