YUM doesn't except wild cards anymore?

Justin Conover justin.conover at gmail.com
Mon Feb 26 05:01:08 UTC 2007


On 2/25/07, Michael Wiktowy <michael.wiktowy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/25/07, Justin Conover <justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Subject shoiuld have said YUM, not you.....
> >
> > Seems like some work, some don't
>
> "yum install" not accepting \* while "yum list" accepting it seems to
> me like a mechanism to keep you from shooting yourself in the foot
> accidentally and not a bug. It makes it much harder to add a whole
> bunch of packages that you don't want for architectures that you are
> not running on.
>
> "yum install" will accept multiple distinct package names so after you
> locate what you want with "yum list" or "yum search", adding all the
> names to the end of yum install shouldn't be difficult.
>
> /Mike
>
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I know how yum works, this is a bug ;)
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