qpkg handled it OK (If I remember correctly) It seems that the equery looks for a complete word between dashes... ------------------------------------------------------------ # equery list 'gentoo*' [ Searching for package 'gentoo*' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20050325 (0) [I--] [ ] net-www/gentoo-webroot-default-0.2 (0) [I--] [ ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r3 (2.6.12-r3) # equery list '*' | grep /gentoo app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre4 app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20050325 net-www/gentoo-webroot-default-0.2 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r3 sys-kernel/gentoo_suspend2_test-sources-2.6.12-r3 sys-kernel/gentoo_suspend2-sources-2.6.12-r3 ------------------------------------------------------------ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. equery list 'gentoo*' 2. equery list '*' | grep /gentoo 3. compare results Actual Results: Allow equery to receive wildcards at package name Expected Results: Show all packages matching the wildcard
There are two different things to note here. Firstly, equery list treats its arguments as a regexp, so gentoo* means "gento" followed by any amount of o's. To get what you want, you'd search for "gentoo.*". The reason "*" without anything else does work - assuming I recall correctly - is because this is treated as a special case. Secondly, equery doesn't look for versions properly. When you search for "gentoo*", it looks for packages of which the name matches gentoo*, with any version number. However, it doesn't actually search for .*/gentoo*-<version number>, it simply searches for .*/gentoo*-.* without paying attention to what that which follows - actually is. I believe I've seen that second part reported before, but I can't seem to find it now.
Thanks! I would have never guessed that it uses regexp and not wildcards... Please consider adding a note in the usage... "pkgspec is regexp"
According to bug #77113 the idea is that regexes won't be used (or not by default, at least) in some future version. That'd work too, no? :)
Hmmm... RegExp was super!!! I hope it will be supported... :) If not... I can always use the grep approach... :)
