Re: rpm --install problems

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:46:47PM -0500, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> And lo, upon Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:16:53PM -0500, Jeff Johnson spaketh thusly:
> 
> > 
> > The above is perfectly correct, but let me supply a technical correction.
> > 
> > Wild cards, more technically, regex's and/or globs through fnmatch, are
> > permitted on the command line in rpm-4.0.3, try
> > 	rpm -qa XFree*
> > 
> > I hasten to point out that I don't believe that this functionality
> > is going to be useful at all on the rpm CLI. The arguments to rpm -qa
> > are package names, not files, so the regex/glob expressions are applied
> > to database keys, not files on path, and there is little reason to
> > believe that I can "fake" a file system onto a database retrieval key
> > through regex/glob sufficiently well to have implemented useful and/or
> > intuitive functionality.
> 
> Would this work?
> 	rpm -qa 'XFree*'
> That would prevent the shell from expanding the '*' character, and 
> since you say wild cards are supported by 4.03, shouldn't that allow rpm's
> pattern matching to work properly?

IMHO, there's no way to jigger up wild cards for use by rpm queries. The
implementation is there on the CLI only to demonstrate the functionality,
nothing more.

*Please* be happy. :-)

73 de Jeff

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