Yum Update Dep error

[Todd Zullinger]

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Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 21:35 +0200, Jeremy Thompson wrote:
>> # yum --exclude evolution\* update
> 
> There should be an equals sign between exclude and the package name
> (see the yum man file).
> 
> e.g. yum --exclude=evolution\* update

The equals is optional and the command will work with or without it.
(Or fail the same way with or without it, in Jeremy's case. :)

This is something that depends a lot on what's parsing the command
line input.  For yum it uses python's optparse module and option
arguments can be specified with or without the =.  At least, that's
how it works as far as I understand and I've tested it both ways.  If
that doesn't work in some cases, I'd be surprised.  But it wouldn't be
the first time I was surprised (nor wrong either).

> I don't know about the need for escaping the wildcard, though.  I've
> not tried that sort of thing.  I wouldn't have thought it necessary,
> as you're not listing local files, you're providing a package name
> to the program.

I thought that bash would still try to expand it.  Actually testing
with yum list evolution* does indeed produce a list of all the
packages beginning with evolution.  So I learned something new today.

I'll still probably quote or backmask * when I do this sort of thing,
just to avoid being surprised when I do happen to have local files
matching the string.

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