On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 00:38 +0200, shrek-m@xxxxxx wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > >>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. > > > > afair it was something like this, but i am not 100% sure. > > # yum update udev* > -> no package, oops ? > > # yum update udev\* > -> udev, ok ! > > # yum update ude* > -> udev, ok ! > > > this would be a problem with yum and not the shell. > no, it's not. run yum -d 3 update [your globs] and look what yum said it received as args. -sv