The following fix has been committed to the debian-sid branch.
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revno: 2109
revision-id: [email protected]
parent: [email protected]
committer: Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]>
branch nick: debian-sid
timestamp: Fri 2011-04-15 12:52:45 +0200
message:
* apt-pkg/policy.cc:
- Allow pinning by glob() expressions, and regular expressions
surrounded by slashes (the "/" character).
diff:
=== modified file 'apt-pkg/policy.cc'
--- apt-pkg/policy.cc 2011-03-08 18:32:35 +0000
+++ apt-pkg/policy.cc 2011-04-15 10:52:45 +0000
@@ -216,6 +216,21 @@
P->Data = Data;
return;
}
+
+ // Allow pinning by wildcards
+ // TODO: Maybe we should always prefer specific pins over non-
+ // specific ones.
+ if (Name.find("*") != string::npos || Name.find("[") != string::npos
+ || Name.find("?") != string::npos || Name[0] == '/') {
+ pkgVersionMatch match(Data, Type);
+ for (pkgCache::PkgIterator P = Cache->PkgBegin();
+ P != Cache->PkgEnd(); P++) {
+ if (match.ExpressionMatches(Name, P.Name())) {
+ CreatePin(Type, P.Name(), Data, Priority);
+ }
+ }
+ return;
+ }
// Get a spot to put the pin
pkgCache::GrpIterator Grp = Cache->FindGrp(Name);
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => In Progress
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Julian Andres Klode (juliank)
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RFE: include support for partial wildcard to pin packages
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