On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 12:50 -0500, James Bowes wrote: > Hi all: > > The behaviour of yum's subcommands wrt globbing is a little hazy, so I'd > like to propose that we explicitly define a few things. Specifically: > > - all commands should accept globs (and no regexes) > - if the command argument is not a valid glob, it will be assumed that > the user wants matches for that string exactly, not strings that contain > that string. > > This wouldn't really change too much, except for provides/whatprovides > on filelists (which I suspect is kinda broken anyways), and search. > Search is kind of special though, so if an invalid glob is supplied, we > could just wrap it in asterisks.
so if I say yum search foo should that match dogfood? I'd be inclined to say yes, it should, but if I say: yum search " foo " it wouldn't. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
