Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 25 Nov 2001 21:08:41 +0000 From andreas@bignose.org Sun Nov 25 15:08:41 2001 Return-path: Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net) [207.217.120.22] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 1686W1-00013p-00; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 15:08:41 -0600 Received: from user-1120si7.dsl.mindspring.com ([66.32.114.71] helo=cranky.bignose.org) by hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1686Vw-0007jL-00 for submit@bugs.debian.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 13:08:37 -0800 Received: from andreas by cranky.bignose.org with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 1686XH-0005Yw-00; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 15:09:59 -0600 From: Andreas Michlmayr To: Debian Bug Tracking System Subject: apt preferences file should handle wildcards gracefully X-Reportbug-Version: 1.36 X-Mailer: reportbug 1.36 Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 15:09:59 -0600 Message-Id: Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: wishlist based on closure of my normal bug 121051, the preferences file does not handle package wildcards gracefully, but takes only explicit package names or the acrosss-the-board wildcard, *. it would be extremely convenient for apt to handle relative wildcards, like package.prefix* or *package.string*, in the preferences file. if unchanged, apt preferences docs should state package wildcards are handled differently from version wildcards. currently, man apt_preferences says, "selection by version can be done by exact match or prefix match." -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux cranky 2.4.12-686 #2 Sat Oct 13 20:13:05 EST 2001 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE= Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.4-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.011006 The GNU stdc++ library