The /usr/bin/dnstracesort script installed by net-dns/djbdns (including the latest masked ebuild) contains this line: ' | sort -t: +0 -2 +4 +3 -4 +2 -3 | uniq | awk -F: ' This syntax is no longer supported by the sort command from coreutils and needs to be updated.
Can you provide a patch, please?
I don't really feel like decoding the new sort syntax which is very ugly so here is a quick shortcut... --- dnstracesort.orig 2006-04-26 15:52:53.000000000 -0400 +++ dnstracesort 2006-04-26 15:52:28.000000000 -0400 @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ } print } -' | sort -t: +0 -2 +4 +3 -4 +2 -3 | uniq | awk -F: ' +' | _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 sort -t: +0 -2 +4 +3 -4 +2 -3 | uniq | awk -F: ' { type = $1 q = $2 Of course the GNU people can always break that again which they seem to like to do.
In the mean time, I came up with this: -' | sort -t: +0 -2 +4 +3 -4 +2 -3 | uniq | awk -F: ' +' | sort -t: -k 1,3 -k 5 -k 4,5 -k 3,4 | uniq | awk -F: ' Does this look better than yours? I can't test the old syntax, because I've no system such an old sort.
It seems to work fine either way. Mine modifies less of DJB's code but I have no idea how long sort will maintain that compatibility feature so yours is probably a better idea. Your sort params were accepted by the sort on my OpenBSD system which is: # sort --version sort (GNU textutils) 2.0 Written by Mike Haertel.
Thanks for the confirmation. I added my patch to the tree a few minutes ago. The ebuild will go stable in a few days. No need to stay in unstable because of this minor fix.
Agreed. This is a minor fix to a component that almost nobody uses anyways. Thanks.
