Josef Kufner wrote: DG> So you can write, for example: DG> Package: /.*openoffice\.org.*/
JAK> I would like to have something like this instead: JAK> Package: openoffice.org-* JAK> This is also similar to what seems to be available JAK> for versions already (according to apt_preferences(5)): JAK> Pin: version 5.8* JK> It would be nice to have both syntaxes. Perl regexp is JK> powerful; shell-like wildcards are short and mostly sufficient. I agree, but I wrote the patch the way I did for two reasons: - I wanted it working that afternoon - Apt already uses this regex engine for searching It would be possible to write a globbing engine, or a glob-to-regex translator, but that would be a more intrusive patch. The places where "*" already has meaning in Apt preferences are in fact neither - they're just a way to say "all" or "prefix match" (so "Pin: version 5.8*" does what you expect, but "Pin: version *sirius*" does nothing). JK> When we have perl regexp support, it should be easy to add JK> shell-like wildcards. Maybe just escape dots and other characters JK> and replace "?" -> "." and "*" -> ".*". I think if we're going to have globs, we should have fully-functioning globbing such that the syntax means the same everywhere. Perhaps someone from the Apt team could comment on what feature set is actually desirable. Cheers Duncan -- Duncan Gibb - Technical Director Sirius Corporation plc - control through freedom http://www.siriusit.co.uk/ || t: +44 870 608 0063 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
