is fedora really bleeding edge?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 17:01 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: 
> On 3/4/2012 1:46 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >
> > Run: yum install python3\*
> > and see what happens.
> 
> Aaron:
> 
> I just went through all the man pages and docs on yum and couldn't see 
> what this syntax meant. To get python3, I do "yum install python3" ... 
> what does the \* get me?
> 
> My apologies in advance if I am missing the obvious ...
> Thanks,
> Paul

Evidently we are entering a state of confusion. I was responding to
someone [maybe not you] who said F16 does not support python3. We seem
to agree that it does.

Now the \* comes from a bash rule. If you enter an argument like
python3* bash will try to expand the argument before it is submitted to
yum for processing. Using something like python3\* delays the expansion
of the argument until yum is processing it so other rpms whose names
start with python3 will be downloaded. 
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