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| author | Arch Librarian <arch@canonical.com> | 2004-09-20 16:54:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Arch Librarian <arch@canonical.com> | 2004-09-20 16:54:57 +0000 |
| commit | 648e3cb48955f82ce2e34c67eb9eefb76138a3b3 (patch) | |
| tree | 619db74073fe9f0152d6e742e76ad5e32df71c8e /doc/apt-get.8.yo | |
| parent | c373c37a2edf384b658c8d054bdcc55464900863 (diff) | |
Regex, --all-versions and more OR stuff
Author: jgg
Date: 1999-10-22 04:05:47 GMT
Regex, --all-versions and more OR stuff
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt-get.8.yo | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt-get.8.yo b/doc/apt-get.8.yo index 393f9ec6f..ac2cbab9a 100644 --- a/doc/apt-get.8.yo +++ b/doc/apt-get.8.yo @@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ may be used to override decisions made by apt-get's conflict resolution system. If no package matches the given expression and the expression contains one of '.', '?' or '*' then it is assumed to be a POSIX regex and it is applied to all package names in the database. Any matches are then installed (or -removed). +removed). Note that matching is done by substring so 'lo*' matches 'how-lo' +and 'lowest'. If this is undesired prefix with a '^' character. dit(bf(remove)) bf(remove) is identical to bf(install) except that packages are removed |