On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Otavio Salvador < otavio.salva...@ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Andre McCurdy <armccu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Khem Raj <raj.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> On Sep 30, 2015, at 3:03 PM, Andre McCurdy <armccu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>> I'd like the rootfs manifest to be sorted when using .ipk packaging. > >>> Would a patch to sort the result of OpkgPkgsList().list be acceptable? > >>> Or would the sorting be better done elsewhere? > >> > >> its not clear what kind of sorting are you looking for. It could be a > good thing in general if its > >> configurable and you can explain the value add of doing it. > > > > Aim is to make the manifest for each rootfs a little more human > > readable by sorting the list of installed packages alphabetically. > > > > Currently, when ipk packaging is used, the order of packages in the > > manifest matches the order in /var/lib/opkg/status, which appears to > > be "random". > > > > It looks like RpmPkgsList().list does always sort it's results before > > returning, so adding a sort to OpkgPkgsList().list would make it > > consistent with the RPM equivalent. > > Consistency is always good. So please prepare a patch. Agreed. In addition to being more human readable, it'd also be slightly easier to compare manifests if they're pre-sorted with a tool like 'comm'. -- Christopher Larson clarson at kergoth dot com Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus Maintainer - Tslib Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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