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

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Wed Feb 17 21:11:25 EST 2010


On 02/17/2010 10:13 PM, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, clemens fischer
> <ino-news at 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 = 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?
>
> -Dan
>
>    
Yes, sure! In many times, this will be really usefull.

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