another dnf kernel issue?

[Neal Becker]

Reindl Harald wrote:

> 
> Am 09.02.2015 um 15:08 schrieb Neal Becker:
>> [nbecker at nbecker1 ~]$ sudo dnf remove kernel*3.18.3*
>> [sudo] password for nbecker:
>> No match for argument: kernel*3.18.3*
>> Error: No packages marked for removal.
>> [nbecker at nbecker1 ~]$ sudo dnf remove kernel*3.18.3-201.fc21
>> No match for argument: kernel*3.18.3-201.fc21
>> Error: No packages marked for removal.
>> [nbecker at nbecker1 ~]$ sudo yum remove kernel*3.18.3-201.fc21
>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, merge-conf, versionlock
>> Repodata is over 2 weeks old. Install yum-cron? Or run: yum makecache fast
>> Resolving Dependencies
>> --> Running transaction check
>> ---> Package kernel-core.x86_64 0:3.18.3-201.fc21 will be erased
>> ---> Package kernel-modules.x86_64 0:3.18.3-201.fc21 will be erased
>> ---> Package kernel-modules-extra.x86_64 0:3.18.3-201.fc21 will be erased
>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> 
> you input is plain wrong
> 
> you need to escape * by \* because otherwise you relie on luck and
> undefined behavior depending in which directory your shell is

You didn't look very closely.  If bash had expanded the '*', there wouldn't be 
the message:

No match for argument: kernel*3.18.3-201.fc21

And note that yum worked.

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