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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