[CentOS] New installation woes

Wed Nov 19 16:59:51 UTC 2008
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr>


Vandaman wrote:
> Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
>> We did not do anything. It is a bug in the priorities
>> plugin.
>>
>> The reason we have a perl-DBD-mysql is because that is the
>> upstream name and the naming convention dictates to use the
>> upstream name. That is the only reliable way for not having
>> RPM clashes.
>>
>> Maybe someone should report to Red Hat that perl-DBD-MySQL
>> has a packaging bug ?
>>
>> 	http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-mysql/
>>
> 
> What is the bug? It does not appear in the site you linked to.
> It would be surprising if Red Hat are unaware of upstream changes 
> as one would expect it to be rolled out into Fedora rawhide at least
> even if the changes are backported int RHEL.

*packaging bug*
the link shows that upstream is named all lowercase for mysql, so the 
rpm should also.