Bug 397190

Summary:	zypper bug with file globbing
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Gary Ekker <gekker>
Component:	libzypp	Assignee:	E-mail List <zypp-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	matz
Version:	RC 1
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Description Gary Ekker 2008-06-04 17:19:26 UTC

when entering a command like `zypper up -t package ruby*` it works fine if you are in a path where no files exist that match the expression "ruby*". 

sudo zypper up -t package ruby*
Reading installed packages...
Package 'rubygems.files.txt' is not installed.
Nothing to do.

In this case since rubygems.files.txt exists in the current working directory, the command fails.

Comment 1 Michael Matz 2008-06-04 17:27:36 UTC

Fileglobbing is done by the shell, not by zypper.  It's the same difference
for "echo bla*" depending on if the current dir contains such files or not.

non-matching globs are usually expanded to itself (and hence seen by zypper),
that can be changed by "shopt -s nullglob" in bash.

You can disable all globbing with "set -f", so that "bla*" will be given
literally to the program, not matter if a file list "blabla" exists.

Not a zypper bug.

Comment 2 Michael Schröder 2008-06-05 09:31:17 UTC

Or just quote the argument:

zypper up -t package "ruby*"