From 648e3cb48955f82ce2e34c67eb9eefb76138a3b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arch Librarian Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:54:57 +0000 Subject: Regex, --all-versions and more OR stuff Author: jgg Date: 1999-10-22 04:05:47 GMT Regex, --all-versions and more OR stuff --- doc/apt-get.8.yo | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc/apt-get.8.yo') diff --git a/doc/apt-get.8.yo b/doc/apt-get.8.yo index 393f9ec6f..ac2cbab9a 100644 --- a/doc/apt-get.8.yo +++ b/doc/apt-get.8.yo @@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ may be used to override decisions made by apt-get's conflict resolution system. If no package matches the given expression and the expression contains one of '.', '?' or '*' then it is assumed to be a POSIX regex and it is applied to all package names in the database. Any matches are then installed (or -removed). +removed). Note that matching is done by substring so 'lo*' matches 'how-lo' +and 'lowest'. If this is undesired prefix with a '^' character. dit(bf(remove)) bf(remove) is identical to bf(install) except that packages are removed -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2