Re: [pacman-dev] pacman sorting incompatible with 'sort' command

On 05/05/17 at 09:19am, Adesh Kumar wrote:

pacman internal sorting on package names differ from the one implemented in linux 'sort' command.

pacman treats '-' (hyphen) differently.

Testcase:

1. Install i3 group. It will install i3-wm, i3lock and i3status

2. Check the following commands:

--($:~)-- pacman -Qeq | grep i3 i3-wm i3lock i3status

--($:~)-- pacman -Qeq | grep i3 | sort i3lock i3status i3-wm

--($:~)-- pacman -Qeq | grep i3 | sort -c sort: -:2: disorder: i3lock

pacman sorts according to the C locale. Why does this matter though? I don't believe we make any promises about query output order at all, let alone that it will match `sort`. apg