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Package: apt
Version: 0.6.38
Severity: minor
When invoking apt-get install or remove with the * character :
for example : apt-get remove kernel-image-2.6*
apt behave as if the * were at one char before (kernel-image-2.*)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-5 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.1-6 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.6-9 The GNU Standard C++
Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Subject: Re: Bug#325717: apt: wrong position of the wildcard character for packages names
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On Tuesday, August 30, 2005 1:42 PM, Arnaud Casteigts
<arnaud.casteigts@labri.fr> wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.38
> Severity: minor
>
> When invoking apt-get install or remove with the * character :
>
> for example : apt-get remove kernel-image-2.6*
>
> apt behave as if the * were at one char before (kernel-image-2.*)
apt is doing exactly as you requested. From apt-get(8):
If no package matches the given expression and the expression
contains one of '.', '?' or '*' then it is assumed to be a POSIX
regular expression, and it is applied to all package names in
the database. Any matches are then installed (or removed). Note
that matching is done by substring so 'lo.*' matches 'how-lo'
and 'lowest'. If this is undesired, anchor the regular expres-
sion with a '^' or '$' character, or create a more specific reg-
ular expression.
The regular expression you've provided matches "kernel-image-2 followed by
any character except newline, followed by zero of more occurences of the
character '6'". To remove all packages with names starting
"kernel-image-2.6", the appropriate command would be:
apt-get remove '^kernel-image-2\.6.*'
Closing this as documented behaviour.
Regards,
Adam
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