How does setup.exe (without setup.ini) distinguish between different versions of the same file?

[Charles Wilson]

fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net wrote:

> 
>     1. setup.exe tries to install ash 20011018-1 not 20020131-1
>     2. setup.exe tries to install automake-devel 1.5b-1 not 1.5-5
>     3. setup.exe tries to install gdb 20010428-1 not 20010428-3
>     4. setup.exe tries to install libtool-devel 20010531-6 not 20020202-1

#1, #3, #4: IIRC, the currently distributed setup.exe had some problems: 
it defaulted to the "PREV" version instead of the "CURR" version.

#2:  1.5b is marked as a "TEST" version -- but it IS newer than 1.5-5. 
However, since you specify that you don't have a setup.ini file, there's 
no way for your setup.exe to know that.

--Chuck


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