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From: "Michael R. Rudel" <mrr@puma.dyn.ml.org>
To: Satoshi Asami <asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu>
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I don't think Jordan has fixed sysinstall yet.  I,however, don't agree 
about seeing what version is newer. It really should just install the 
newer version.. It's up to you, though, your the one changing it. ;)

mrr


On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> 
> I agree, but it's not trivial to figure out which version is newer
> than what.  (Note that "4.2a" (or "4.2alpha") sorts after "4.2" or
> "4.2.1".)
> 
> We can make pkg_add ask a question ("do you really want to...") , but
> sysinstall needs to be fixed to handle interaction of that sort (or
> does it already?).
> 
> Satoshi
>