On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 04:43:35AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote: > >3. Create a dummy package with version 99.999 or something so that setup > >will always think that what you have installed is newer than anything > >available. I think this could be as simple as just editing > >/etc/setup/installed.db to contain a line such as "autoconf > >autoconf-99.999-1.tar.bz2 0", without actually creating a package. > > This is an intresting hint, thanks.
Where in the source does setup do version comparisons?