On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 01:31 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 06:51 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > Why doesn't *synaptics* find xorg-x11-drv-synaptics ? > > Because the command line interpreter that you're typing in expands the > wildcards, trying to match something (locally), rather than the > wildcards being passed to yum, and having yum wildcard match something > that it's looking through. > > When you want some command to do its own tricks with wildcards, escape > them with a backslash, so the CLI doesn't use them. > > e.g. \*example\* yum list \*synaptics\* Installed Packages libsynaptics.i3860.14.6c-5.fc10 installed xorg-x11-drv-synaptics.i386 0.15.2-2.fc10 installed Available Packages gsynaptics.i386 0.9.14-2.fc10 fedora ksynaptics.i386 0.3.3-7.fc10 fedora libsynaptics-devel.i386 0.14.6c-5.fc10 fedora synaptics.i386 0.14.6-11.fc10 fedora xfce-mcs-plugin-gsynaptics.i386 1.0.0-2.fc10 fedora xfce4-gsynaptics-mcs-plugin.i386 1.0.0-1.fc9 fedora Much better ! I don't understand why the CLI is mangling *synaptics*. Yum, written in Python, should get an argv that is *synaptics*. This needs to be looked into. As far as I am concerned, this is a bug. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
