http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177262 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177262#c2
--- Comment #2 from Michael Andres ma@suse.com --- This is not how locks work. 'kernel-default-5.3*' would lock a package named 'kernel-default-5.3*' not 'kernel-default' with a version matching '5.3*'.
In fact zypper supports just locking relative to an exact version ('>', '<' or '=' version).
Matching versions might be a nice feature. We'll look into it...