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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/delete perform.c
In-Reply-To: <55767.947660806@axl.noc.iafrica.com> from Sheldon Hearn at "Jan 12, 2000 09:06:46 am"
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:01:04 -0800 (PST)
Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard),
	kris@hub.FreeBSD.ORG (Kris Kennaway),
	fullermd@futuresouth.com (Matthew D. Fuller),
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> 
> 
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:21:01 PST, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> 
> > That is to say that it should be possible to say:
> > 
> >      pkg_info '*apache*'
> >      pkg_delete 'emacs*'
> > 
> > etc.  And no, I don't have time to write the code which takes a regexp
> > and iteratively matches it against directory components in
> > /var/db/pkg, but I can certainly say that it should be easy enough to
> > implement for anyone who DOES have the time.
> 
> Well, if pkg_delete stripped off the path to a package name, you
> wouldn't need to do all this work.  You could just:
> 
> pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/emacs*

My patch should make that work too, as the shell does the globing:

Orbit.hpc1.com:root{197}# echo /var/db/pkg/X*
/var/db/pkg/XFree86-3.3.5 /var/db/pkg/XFree86-contrib-3.3.3

No, I wasn't about to run that.... thats why I just used echo to make
sure that the args would be correct :-)

-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)               rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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