[Mageia-dev] Problem with urpmq ??

AL13N alien at rmail.be
Wed Dec 26 23:42:19 CET 2012


Op woensdag 26 december 2012 23:18:22 schreef Thierry Vignaud:
> On 26 December 2012 22:53, Eatdirt <dirteat at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I think you have to use urpmq -y ssh
> >>> Or --fuzzy if you like the long version.
> >> 
> >> Yes it seems the default has changed, I noticed it recently...
> > 
> > So do I, I was also wondering why?
> 
> people were complaining there was no exact mode in urpmq.
> Also not performing substring matching is a huge speedup for
> everything (urpmi/urpmq)
> 
> * Tue Dec 04 2012 tv <tv> 7.13-1.mga3
> + Revision: 326599
> - library speedups when looking up packages:
>   o do not attempt fuzzy matching if not requested
> - urpmq:
>   o do not allow substring matching with --fuzzy (mga#2953)
> 
> > In particular, any usage of
> > urpmq blabla
> > has now a high probability to return
> > No package named blabla

i think this is fine, escpecially considering there's scripts that could use 
this, so exact match is much better as default.

there's nothing worse than mistyping and a different package is installed 
because it matched...


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