[Slapt-get-user] How does search work?

[Mark Rosenstand]

On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 10:19 -0500, Scott Lockwood wrote:
> Also, that's odd. Results like lvm- should not have been returned for
> "^lvm2*"... That makes me wonder if slapt-get isn't handling the regex
> correctly...

It should. * means zero or more of the preceding character (in this case
'2'), what you're looking for is probably ^lvm2.* (. being any
character, hence "zero or more of any character")

slapt-get doesn't have its own regexp implementation :)