Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-19 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:51:40 +0100 schrieb Attila vodoo0...@sonnenkinder.org: Oh, so if someone use 'usr/lib/*' than the lib of every new or updated package will get installed with the '.pacnew' ending? Right, that's what NoUpgrade in pacman.conf does. ;-) Greetings, Heiko

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-19 Thread Attila
At Freitag, 19. Februar 2010 12:01 Heiko Baums wrote: Right, that's what NoUpgrade in pacman.conf does. ;-) Thanks for the smiley at the end because i was very silly (oder anderes gesagt die Leitung auf der ich stand ging mindestens zweimal um die Erde -) ). See you, Attila

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-18 Thread Pierre Chapuis
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:34:09 -0600, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: No, we don't support globbing in these options. Question to the list- does it make sense to do so? Yes, but it would also be nice to support recursion here as well. For instance: NoExtract = /usr/share/doc/*

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-18 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Pierre Chapuis catw...@archlinux.us wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:34:09 -0600, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: No, we don't support globbing in these options. Question to the list- does it make sense to do so? Yes, but it would also be nice to

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-18 Thread clemens fischer
Attila wrote: At Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2010 02:13 Dan McGee wrote: No, we don't support globbing in these options. Question to the list- does it make sense to do so? Instead this makes something easier i must say that this could be dangerous too because it could end in some strange

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-18 Thread Attila
At Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2010 19:30 clemens fischer wrote: Not likely. Files named like something/other*, with the star being a literal instead of a glob are very, very rare. There is no guarantee that this will be used in this way.-) On the contrary, people have provided good examples

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-18 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:52:37 +0100 schrieb Attila vodoo0...@sonnenkinder.org: That is true and every example was a good example. But there is a little risk that you got lazy if you don't document what you have done and than including a complete directory with a lot of files could end in a

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-18 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:20:11 +0100 schrieb Pierre Chapuis catw...@archlinux.us: Recursion is a good idea but that's not what is usually expected from *. I would suggest to use ** like in ZSH if it is implemented. Real regular expressions support would solve all those problems but that's

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-18 Thread Attila
At Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2010 23:29 Heiko Baums wrote: 2. What will happen if someone will use it accidentally wrong? Nothing except, that there will be many .pacnew files in this directory which can simply be renamed. So there won't be any serious bug. Oh, so if someone use 'usr/lib/*'

[arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-17 Thread clemens fischer
I could not find any decisive answer in either the man page or on the web. Here's my question: in etc/pacman.conf, can I use entries such as: NoExtract = usr/share/man/man1/mkisofs* NoExtract = etc/logrotate.d/* or: NoUpgrade = etc/cron.daily/logrotate etc/logrotate.* clemens

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-17 Thread Dan McGee
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, clemens fischer ino-n...@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org wrote: I could not find any decisive answer in either the man page or on the web.  Here's my question:  in etc/pacman.conf, can I use entries such as:  NoExtract = usr/share/man/man1/mkisofs*  NoExtract =

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-17 Thread Ray Kohler
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, clemens fischer ino-n...@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org wrote: I could not find any decisive answer in either the man page or on the web.  Here's my question:  in etc/pacman.conf, can I use entries

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-17 Thread Ray Rashif
On 18 February 2010 09:13, Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, clemens fischer ino-n...@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org wrote: I could not find any decisive answer in either the man page or on the web.  Here's my question:  in etc/pacman.conf, can I use entries such

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-17 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:13:26 -0600 schrieb Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com: No, we don't support globbing in these options. Question to the list- does it make sense to do so? Yes, because I usually edit many of the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications due to a missing menu editor in Xfce and

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-17 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
On 02/17/2010 10:13 PM, Dan McGee wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, clemens fischer ino-n...@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org wrote: I could not find any decisive answer in either the man page or on the web. Here's my question: in etc/pacman.conf, can I use entries such as: NoExtract =

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-17 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, clemens fischer ino-n...@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org wrote: I could not find any decisive answer in either the man page or on the web.  Here's my question:  in etc/pacman.conf, can I use entries

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-17 Thread Attila
At Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2010 02:13 Dan McGee wrote: No, we don't support globbing in these options. Question to the list- does it make sense to do so? Instead this makes something easier i must say that this could be dangerous too because it could end in some strange questions in the