On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 14:00 -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote: > seth vidal writes: > > > I understand what you're trying to do. The problem is with the globs. > > > > yum install foo* > > > > Does that mean anything named foo* but only the basearch? > > or > > Does that mean ANYTHING named foo* in any arch that can be installed. > > One would think that foo* would mean only the basearch, and foo*.* would > mean anything in any arch that can be installed, but of course then you > could get in trouble with packages named something like foo.bar.i386. > or even more trouble with control_cpu.i386.i386, if anybody is > crazy/stupid enough to use an arch specifier string in a package name. > > One solution that is rigorous is to use discriminate regular expressions > instead of indiscriminate globs. Then only Unix Gods will be able to do > the slick stuff without a manual and/or examples of usage in hand, but > you can make it do Anything, if your IQ is 177 or so and you don't mind > typing stuff like foo.\*\(.x86_64\). > > Another solution is to just not permit globs of the arch field, but > permit one to enter foo*.i386 and foo*.x86_64 on the same line. After > all, how many archs are we talking about, here? Two? Conceivably, > barely, three? > > I personally like regular expressions if they are easy to code into > python as a drop-in replacement for globs, but they WILL require an > Examples section in the man page. > I'm going to assume that this entire post was made in jest and giggle at the suggestion that we INTENTIONALLY make the cli of yum harder to use. :) -sv
