Bug 79689

Summary:	Order of --list-all output
Product:	pkg-config	Reporter:	Daniel Macks <dmacks>
Component:	src	Assignee:	Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Alphabetical sort of --list-all output Alphabetical sort of --list-all output

Description Daniel Macks 2014-06-05 16:33:09 UTC

Created attachment 100474 [details]
Alphabetical sort of --list-all output

For the same reason as Bug #79666 (but not caught by a test-case), the order of packages displayed the --list-all mode is non-deterministic. The attached patch makes it alphabetical.

Comment 1 Dan Nicholson 2014-09-27 22:54:08 UTC

As in bug79666, wouldn't it be more deterministic to use strcmp?

Comment 2 Daniel Macks 2017-12-16 08:07:48 UTC

Commit 715cc306b0e4add06523b8fcce49867da469a728 demonstrates the oddity of unsorted output. Given ghash's hashing method and how few items there are, it doesn't fail. But the success technically does appear to require that the hash-order is deterministic. And the expected results--packages ordered as:

sub1
sub2
broken

from --list-all demonstrates that how it is unfriendly to humans trying to read the list to find packages in it by eye.

Comment 3 Daniel Macks 2017-12-16 08:11:49 UTC

Created attachment 136212 [details] [review]
Alphabetical sort of --list-all output

Updated to patch against 0.29.2 and with g_strcmp0 as in 818aeace3b08d731d104d5ef9b1d5e3c34dd4192 (the committed seeming resolution of Bug #79666). Updated test-case, and with more uniform coding style.

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