On Tuesday, February 10, 2015, Radek Holy &lt;<a href="mailto:rholy@redhat.com">rholy@redhat.com</a>&gt; wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Does &quot;sudo dnf remove kernel*-3.18.3*&quot; work for you?<br>
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>From the DNF&#39;s persepective (<a href="http://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/command_ref.html#specifying-packages" target="_blank">http://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/command_ref.html#specifying-packages</a>), your specification is in the form &quot;name&quot; (because of the missing dash) and there is no package with a name matching &quot;kernel*3.18.3*&quot;. Also in the second query, it is assumed that the name must match &quot;kernel*3.18.3&quot;.<br>
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TBH, I don&#39;t know whether we should extend the forms of package specifications to support your case. The current behaviour seems to be safer to me. I mean, if we improve it, user wouldn&#39;t be able to query just package names as easily as now.<br>
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Radek Holý<br>
Associate Software Engineer<br>
Software Management Team<br>
Red Hat Czech</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Days ago when I tried to install/remove 7000+ packages from half-completed downloading in Neal&#39;s way, it didn&#39;t work at all.</div><div><br></div><div>But without asterisk in the command, things could be harder once there are numerous RPMs being taken.</div><br><br>-- <br><br>Yours sincerely,<br>Christopher Meng<br><br><a href="http://cicku.me" target="_blank">http://cicku.me</a><br>