From 23b35b838587cf83ff70afb0564576837d621a9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pascal Rigaux <pixel@mandriva.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:38:08 +0000
Subject: - urpmf:   o display a warning when searching "xxx(yyy)" since it is
 handled as a     regexp and so the parentheses are useless. suggest using
 --literal

---
 NEWS         | 2 ++
 urpm/args.pm | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d76fb2bd..cedf5c63 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 - urpmf:
   o add special code for --files simple case, it makes urpmf 3x faster for
     this often used case
+  o display a warning when searching "xxx(yyy)" since it is handled as a
+    regexp and so the parentheses are useless. suggest using --literal
 - urpmq:
   o add --provides
   o fix option -a : display packages of all compatible archs (#36942)
diff --git a/urpm/args.pm b/urpm/args.pm
index de7c6a58..b676a891 100644
--- a/urpm/args.pm
+++ b/urpm/args.pm
@@ -347,6 +347,7 @@ sub add_urpmf_parameter {
     if ($::literal) {
 	$p = quotemeta $p;
     } else {
+	$p =~ /\([^?|]*\)$/ and $urpm->{error}(N("by default urpmf awaits a regexp. you should use option \"--literal\"")); 
 	push @::raw_non_literals, $p;
 	# quote "+" chars for packages with + in their names
 	$p =~ s/\+/\\+/g;
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