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From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: i386/74593 Installer installs the wrong version of linux_base
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The following reply was made to PR i386/74593; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To: Matteo Riondato <rionda@gufi.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: i386/74593 Installer installs the wrong version of linux_base
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 23:38:29 +0200

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 On 2005.04.03 20:30:13 +0000, Matteo Riondato wrote:
 >
 >  The origin of the problem is the index_search function in
 >  src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/index.c, called from config.c:526 .
 > =20
 >  The search is done in a sorted INDEX so linux_base-6* comes before
 >  linux_base-7* (which is the "real" linux_base).=3D20
 > =20
 >  Obviously this bug appears only when there are more than one package
 >  with the same basename.
 
 This sounds very similar to a problem I had with the MTA selection
 code.  See:
 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/config.c#rev1=
 =2E224
 
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 Simon L. Nielsen
 
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