Hi,
Due to disk space constraints on my notebook, I was unable to update 435
applications all at once. Wanting to do my updates in smaller batches,
I tried 'yum update apr-*' and was happy to find that I could use
wildcards to specify smaller groups of applications to update. Next, I
tried 'yum update a* b* c* d*' figuring I would do four letters of the
alphabet at a time. The prompt said I would only be updating 2
applications, though I know from my 'yum list updates' list that there
are many more applications to be updated beginning with those letters.
Next, I tried 'yum update a*' and noticed that there were may lines
saying there was no match followed by the name of a file that started
with 'a' that was in the current directory. When I moved into an empty
subdirectory and ran 'yum update a*', it ran exactly as I had hoped.
If this is a bug, please fix it. If it's a feature, please explain.
By the way, something like 'yum -n ## update' where ## is the number of
applications to update would be helpful in this situation, or better
yet, have yum clean up after itself every ## updates.
Thanks.
Steve
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