[packagekit] search-file pattern search

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 06:06:02 PDT 2009


On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Adrien Bustany<madcat at mymadcat.com> wrote:
> As far as I know, yum whatprovides supports wildcards... So you could
> ask SearchFile ("*/yum.conf")... But maybe it's not the case for all
> backends

I wanted to keep wildcards out of the public API for now. It makes
backends more complex, and given the backends are running as root, I
don't think regular expressions and wildcards are a good idea.

Richard.



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