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| author | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackware.com> | 2018-12-02 00:43:19 -0600 |
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| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackware.com> | 2018-12-02 00:50:44 -0600 |
| commit | 0463acfd1d57efeb6385f9c2e435861b06fd3eb6 (patch) | |
| tree | c2818a15fea16752711ee2dc3c2c628617faf95f | |
| parent | 5fdb8c5a0ba08e00d3b6e4bba3c5884d4fb79c89 (diff) | |
| download | slackpkg-0463acfd1d57efeb6385f9c2e435861b06fd3eb6.tar.xz | |
Note requirement to escape special characters in blacklist
| -rw-r--r-- | files/ChangeLog | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | files/blacklist.new | 4 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/files/ChangeLog b/files/ChangeLog index 1d023a5..1fbe9ad 100644 --- a/files/ChangeLog +++ b/files/ChangeLog @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ For Next Release to be ignored by slackpkg. The new behavior is that *only* the glibc package is ignored. If you want to blacklist all packages whose names begin with glibc, you would need to add "glibc.*" to - the blacklist now. (David Woodfall) + the blacklist now. Also note that any special characters, e.g. "+", + will need to be escaped in the blacklist file. (David Woodfall) - Add support for listing .new files without PAGER (David Woodfall) - Remove switch.ch mirrors - Add config option to allow *not* saving .orig configs (Darren Austin) diff --git a/files/blacklist.new b/files/blacklist.new index 37d6145..df47915 100644 --- a/files/blacklist.new +++ b/files/blacklist.new @@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ # To blacklist *all* of the "xorg-server-*" packages, use this: # xorg-server.* # +# You will need to escape any special characters that are present in the +# package name. For example, to blacklist the gcc-g++ package, use this: +# gcc-g\+\+ +# # DON'T put any space(s) before or after the package name or regexp. # If you do this, the blacklist will NOT work. # |