Subject: Re: FYI: conflicts on old pkgs
To: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/29/1998 13:55:45
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

: Um, maybe I forgot to mention... it's no longer needed to have CONFLICTS
: entries for old versions of the same package, old versions of the same
: package are detected automatically now. This was done in my last pkg
: overhaul two(?) months ago. Just came to my mind again...  :-)
: 
: (For the code, see the first invocation of check_if_installed() via
:  findmatchingname() in add/perform.c)

... And corresponding logic in pkgsrc?

So, this means that it matches on everything before the last `-'?  Cool!

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)