can't stop yum, must use kill -9

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

seth vidal wrote:

>>an other thing is/was "\*" and "*" as wildcard
>>i am not sure if it was "yum" and/or "rpm"
>>in some versions "*" is ok and suddenly after an update you have to use 
>>"\*" to get the expected resultat.
>>i do not know in which release/version this happened.
>>"\*" is/was always ok.
>>    
>>
>
>This has nothing to do with yum.
>This is completely a function of your shell.
>

afair it was something like this, but i am not 100% sure.

# yum update  udev*
  -> no package,  oops ?

# yum update  udev\*
  -> udev, ok !

# yum update  ude*
  -> udev, ok !


this would be a problem with yum and not the shell.

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shrek-m