pkgman doesn't lowercase input

[KapiX]

haikuporter creates packages with all provides/requires lowercased.

Now if I go to the recipe, find lib:libKF5ConfigCore in REQUIRES and try to install it I'll get a message saying there's no package containing that lib. I need to remember to lowercase stuff manually. It's confusing.

Why does haikuporter lowercase stuff when we have case sensitive filesystem? Where should this be fixed? haikuporter, pkgman, solver?

[waddlesplash]

It would be nice to know why HaikuPorter lowercases things in the first place. I know it's done this since the beginning of HaikuPorterForPM, anyway, but why?

[korli]

This started when some people decided to use case in recipes, instead of just lib:libkf5configcore. So to simplify things, haikuporter now does the lowercase itself.

[waddlesplash]

Yes, but why simplify things? Since we can theoretically have both a libuppercase.so and a libUPPERCASE.so, why restrict package provides to only allow lib:libuppercase?

[jessicah]

There is logically absolutely no reason to be case-sensitive. So automatically lowercasing makes sense. We should update the package kit to do the same.

Installing two packages with provides that differ in case only seems ridiculous.

[korli]

see also:

​https://github.com/haikuports/haikuporter/issues/50

​https://github.com/haikuports/haikuporter/commit/ca611f5d9fe62420268dd8c8cd7eeaa07ac067a4