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?

2010-02-19 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:51:40 +0100 schrieb Attila : > 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?

2010-02-18 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/*' t

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 : > 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 > probably overkill. It

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 : > 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 bugreport where people sea

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 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 str

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 wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:34:09 -0600, Aaron Griffin > > 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 we

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 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/* > > should

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 supp

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 wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, clemens fischer > 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/m

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 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* NoEx

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 : > 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 a terrible menu

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

2010-02-17 Thread Ray Rashif
On 18 February 2010 09:13, Dan McGee wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, clemens fischer > 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/mk

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 wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, clemens fischer > 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/m

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 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 = etc/logrotate.d/* > > or: > >  N