On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 06:19:49PM +0000, Duncan Gibb wrote: > Hi > > The attached patch adds a very basic and crufty extension to apt policy > such that pinnings can use regex matching. If the name given on the > "Package:" line in the apt preference file begins and ends with '/', it > is interpreted as a regular expression (with ^ and $ pre- and post-fixed > for a semblance of safety). > > So you can write, for example: > > Package: /.*openoffice\.org.*/ > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-Priority: 900
I would like to have something like this instead: Package: openoffice.org-* This is also similar to what seems to be available for versions already (according to apt_preferences(5)): Pin: version 5.8* -- Julian Andres Klode - Free Software Developer Debian Developer - Contributing Member of SPI Ubuntu Member - Fellow of FSFE Website: http://jak-linux.org/ XMPP: [email protected] Debian: http://www.debian.org/ SPI: http://www.spi-inc.org/ Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/ FSFE: http://www.fsfe.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
