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How can I exclude all pre, beta, and 686 packages safely?

April 26, 2017EXCLUDE Packages safely

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How can I exclude all *pre*, *beta*, and *686* packages safely?

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An exclude regex like .*pre.* , .*beta.*, or .*686.* may net you the results of excluding all packages with those characters in the name or version. But they may also catch packages that have those characters normally occurring in the package name. This regex seems to work much better: [0-9\_\.\-]{1}pre[0-9\-\.\-]{1} for beta packages: [0-9\_\.\-]{1}beta[0-9\-\.\-]{1} or for i686 packages (or for i585 or i486): [0-9\_\.\-]+i686 Anything matching these regex will be added to the exclude list for the transaction.