> an other thing is/was "\*" and "*" as wildcard > i am not sure if it was "yum" and/or "rpm" > in some versions "*" is ok and suddenly after an update you have to use > "\*" to get the expected resultat. > i do not know in which release/version this happened. > "\*" is/was always ok. This has nothing to do with yum. This is completely a function of your shell. bash or tcsh is expanding out the wildcard, you have to escape them or single quote them for yum to see them un-expanded. -sv