[Nix-dev] nix-env should select most recent version

[Armijn Hemel]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 04:19:07PM +0100, Eelco Visser wrote:
> Would it be an idea to automatically install the 'latest' version of a
> package in case more than one is available?
> 
>    nix-env -i subversion
> 
> resulted in
> 
> collission between `/nix/store/d339e9f8933de861ba66b7913f5b5b64-subversion-1.0.9/bin/apr-config' and `/nix/store/c358dd31cc3b2cba849
> 7100e54c41a18-subversion-1.1.1/bin/apr-config' at /nix/store/6e2664c4f003efef986d045bafcf95f2-builder.pl line 61.

Exact same problem I had. I made a script based on martin's
make-symlinks.sh, which I have to commit. However, first someone should
go through it to find small bugs, because I'm not confident I covered
all cases...

armijn

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