On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:47:47PM +0200, joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote: > php-4.4.* => php~4.4 How about php>=4.4<4.5 instead, which more precisely describes what is wanted? > zip-[0-9]* => zip > foo-1.2{,nb*} => foo~1.2nb > (note: missing nb part treated as 0, foo-1.2.1 would *not* match) Same here: foo>=1.2<1.2.1 Cheers, Thomas