Jira (PUP-1365) Yum provider doesn't understand globs

[Jo Rhett (JIRA)]

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Jo Rhett commented on an issue   Re: Yum provider doesn't understand globs I have read your references, and I failed to find any mention of ambiguous behavior or subtle surprises. As a matter of fact, I found only a reference to one thread which went sideways on some unexplained need for globally consistent numbering across every package, which is neither operationally relevant nor likely to happen. I feel much more strongly about PUP-1519 because it is more specific, and it probably solves the use case presented here. PUP-1519 is very necessary and obvious, and I've had to write thousands of lines of code to work around it. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1365 Yum provider doesn't understand globs Yum understands globs in regards to version numbers. On the command line, if I say "`yum install puppet-2.6*`", I will get the latest version of 2.6 available, even if a 2.7 version exists in my repositories. If I use this in a manifest, such as `ensure => '2.6*'`, puppet attempts to install "literally `puppet-2.6*`", as if asterisk was a version n... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.