Bug 271101 – app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.6.11-r2: ekeyword sorts keywords not alphabetically

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2009-05-24 19:08:39 UTC]

ekeyword sorts keywords not alphabetically.

Initial KEYWORDS in test-1.ebuild have correct order:
# grep KEYWORDS test-1.ebuild
KEYWORDS="~sparc ~sparc-fbsd ~x86 ~x86-fbsd"

# ekeyword ~all test-1.ebuild
test-1.ebuild
  -KEYWORDS="~sparc ~sparc-fbsd ~x86 ~x86-fbsd"
  +KEYWORDS="~sparc ~x86 ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd"

[Comment 1 [e-mail] 2009-05-25 03:31:07 UTC]

The commit message for the patch that produces this behavior (r569) says "Add GLEP 53 keywords sorting patch from prefix".

While GLEP 53 doesn't say anything about sort orders, the intent was to sort by arch within groups of OS, using the GLEP's definition of OS and arch.

If this behavior isn't desirable, a discussion should happen on one of the mailing lists, and an sort-order explanation should probably be on the GLEP.

[Comment 2 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2009-05-26 18:16:00 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> If this behavior isn't desirable, a discussion should happen on one of the
> mailing lists

I don't know it this behavior is desirable, but anyway please discuss it on gentoo-dev mailing list.

[Comment 3 Fabian Groffen 2009-07-20 18:54:14 UTC]

What needs to be discussed about this?

[Comment 4 Christian Ruppert (idl0r) 2009-10-27 18:30:08 UTC]

I'll close this bug since nobody has been started a discussion and nobody else complained.
Feel free to re-open if necessary.