Subject: Re: unexpected package name matching
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/15/2007 14:19:31
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 01:31:09AM +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
> 
>>Klaus Heinz wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>is the following behaviour expected?
>>>  $ pkg_info -e pkg_install
>>>  pkg_install-20070814
>>>  $ pkg_info -e pkg\*all
>>>  $ pkg_info -e pkg\*all\*
>>>  pkg_install-20070814
>>>This means that matching against package names without version number
>>>works but wildcard matching is only successful against full package
>>>names (with version number).
>>
>>Fixed in current pkgsrc. Thanks for finding this inconsistency.
> 
> 
> While it is inconsistent, I am not sure I like the more general
> behaviour either. It adds another class of possible abuses...

For example?

Roland