yum downgrade?

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Fri Jun 9 12:57:22 UTC 2006


Ed Greshko wrote:

>>> If you normally run "yum update" you can change your procedure to simply
>>> run "yum --exclude=dovecot* update".
>> 
>> Don't you have to say "yum --exclude=dovecot\* update" ?
> 
> I've never had to escape the * in this situation.  YMMV,

I stand corrected.
I assumed the shell would try to expand the "*",
and when it could not would either give a warning or omit the argument.

But I've never really understood the subtleties of bash.

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