reassign 148021 apt
retitle 148021 more confusion caused by apt
merge 148021 147817
thanks
The trigger in this case was 'gnat-3.1'. The package name contains a '.'
and therefore triggers the regex code.
>From apt-get(8):
If no package matches the given expression and the expression
contains one of '.', '?' or '*' then it is assumed to be a POSIX
regex and it is applied to all package names in the database.
Any matches are then installed (or removed). Note that matching
is done by substring so 'lo.*' matches 'how-lo' and 'lowest'. If
this is undesired prefix with a '^' character.
To solve this, I would suggest to either
a) print a warning message, when the regex code kicks in, or
b) remove the dot from the triggering characters (7% of all packages in
my dpkg/status have a '.' in their name), or
c) instead add '[]^$()|' to the triggering characters:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install ^gnat
| Reading Package Lists... Done
| Building Dependency Tree... Done
| E: Couldn't find package ^gnat
or
d) remove this **** totally. Instead implement simple globbing as dpkg
has. This would radically improve consistency of interface with in
Debians core management utilities:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache show '*gnat*'
| W: Unable to locate package *gnat*
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg -l '*gnat*'
| Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-con
| |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (St
| uppercase=bad)
| ||/ Name Version
| +++-=========================-=========================
| pn gnat <none>
| [...]
Thank you for your time and work,
David
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