Subject: Re: wilder wildcards
To: J Chapman Flack <flack@cs.purdue.edu>
From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/19/2005 23:25:21
J Chapman Flack wrote:
> How come
> 
> PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/2.0/i386/All \
> pkg_add -v 'php<5'
> 
> installs php-4.4.1nb2, but
> 
> PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/2.0/i386/All \
> pkg_add -v 'php<5.tgz'
> 
> installs php-5.0.5
> 
> ?

Maybe the "5.tgz" is interpreted as "5.20.7.26". (tgz are the 20th, 7th 
and 26th letters in the latin alphabet.)

Then of course, php-5.0.5 < php-5.20.7.26.

Roland