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

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, clemens fischer <ino-news@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org> wrote:

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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.*

No, we don't support globbing in these options. Question to the list- does it make sense to do so?

I think so. There could be enough files that listing them would be tedious, or it could be that one wants to exclude any future files of a given pattern, even though one doesn't know what they might be called.