Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Le Jeudi 7 Novembre 2002 10:06, François Pons a écrit :
> > Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > urpmi changelog for 4.0-4mdk says:
> > > - improved skip.list contents to provides using sense and regexp
> > >   on package fullname.
> > >
> > > However, it lacks a bit description to make it really useful :-)
> > >
> > > If for instance i want to avoid all automatic update of mdk package for
> > > mplayer, what is exact syntax needed ? mplayer.*\.mdk ?
> >
> > Not far for being that, in fact we need compability with previous file
> > format so, it cannot be that exactly, it is "/regexp/" on fullname or a
> > "provide sense" expression that should be used, it will forwarded to other
> > file for selection.
> I guess "provide sense" means "name", whereas "fullname" means 
> "name-version-release.platform.rpm", right ?

Almost yes, provide means name or provide of a package, sense means empty string
or for example "== 4.0" or "> 4.1-3mdk".

> If my assumptions are ok, answer to my previous question would be 
> /mplayer.*mdk.*/

Yes, more compact will be /mplayer.*mdk/ as a trailing .* add no more.

François.

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