On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 19:53 +0100, Florian Schlichting wrote: [...] > I may not be the most knowledgeable when it comes to regexp, but > shouldn't the first command give the more extensive, global output (ie, > shouldn't it find the libglade2-dev package)??
No, it shouldn't, as libglade2-dev doesn't match "libglad followed by zero or more occurrences of e followed by -dev". Ok, so neither does libglade0-dev at first glance, but see below. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search libglade*-dev > libglade0-dev - Development files for libglade > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search libglade.-dev > libglade0-dev - Development files for libglade > libglade2-dev - Development files for libglade The regexps are fine and producing exactly the correct output; you're hitting an undocumented feature of `apt-cache search'. It's definitely a feature, as there are comments in the source code indicating it's supposed to happen. :-) Specifically, search doesn't just examine package names, but also virtual package names. liibglade0-dev Provides: libglade-dev, which matches the first regexp. Try `apt-cache search mail-tran*', for instance. Regards, Adam
