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

Tue Aug 31 12:01:21 UTC 2021
Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com>

* Josh Boyer:

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