A couple of Yum issues: Wildcards and Dependencies

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 00:58 +1030, n0dalus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently updated yum, and now it doesn't seem to be working with wildcards:
> 
> [root at fedora5 ~]# yum update '*rpm*'
> Loading "installonlyn" Plugin
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> extras-dev: ######################## 2/2
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Examining pam-0.80-14.i386.rpm: pam - 0.80-14.i386
> Examining pam-devel-0.80-14.i386.rpm: pam-devel - 0.80-14.i386
> pam-0.80-14.i386.rpm: does not update installed package.
> pam-devel-0.8-14.i386.rpm: does not update installed package.
> No Packages makred for Update/Obsoletion

you didn't cut and paste this, did you?



> Why is it globbing files when I am using quotes?

ask your shell. do echo '*rpm*' and see what it outputs.

> The other issue I had is that when I ran:
> # yum install pirut
> 
> It complained that firstboot needed system-config-packages (since
> pirut obsoletes system-config-packages), despite the fact that a
> firstboot update was available and it could have updated it and
> resolved the dependency. I don't have the command output here, but I
> was wondering what might have caused this.

would need the command output to know more.

-sv