On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 22:21 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 03/05/18 20:46, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> > On 05/03/18 23:35, Tim wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 12:55 +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> > > > While it mostly works, this specific command fails:
> > > > 
> > > > $ dnf provides '*/Droid Sans*'
> > > 
> > > Is that first asterisk slash sequence the right characters, in the
> > > right order?
> > 
> > Yes, the pattern is a standard wildcard syntax (not a regex). 
> 
> 
> Right.  According to the dnf man page
> 
> SPECIFYING PROVIDES
>        <provide-spec> in command descriptions  means  the  command  operates  
> on
>        packages  providing  the  given spec. This can either be an explicit 
> pro‐
>        vide, an implicit provide (i.e. name of the package) or a  file  
> provide.
>        The selection is case-sensitive and globbing is supported.
> 
> So, since it is "globbing" one could have used as an alternative
> 
> dnf provides '*/Droid?Sans*'
> 
> The ? matching any single character, including <space>.
> 
> or
> 
> dnf provides '*/Droid*Sans*'
> 
> With * matching any character including none.

That works, but '*/Droid\ Sans*' (i.e. with a literal space) segfaults.

poc
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