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Re: bugs (?), suggestions, questions 2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Wed Oct 23 10:27:43 1996
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 10:25:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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In-Reply-To: <XFMail.961023022508.lfarkas@u-szeged.hu>
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On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Levente Farkas wrote:
> Just one thing what I forget to mention. It would be also useful if
> I cab use wildchars (?,*) in query sometimes don't know the full name
> of the package or the file.
rpm -qa | grep 'foo'
That's how RPM would have to process wildcards internally (the database
scheme we're using doesn't have efficient partial string searches). I'll
probably implement that someday, but it's not high on my list.
Erik
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