Bug 66192 – Wrong version order in package summary

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Luca Santarelli 2004-10-03 01:58:12 UTC]

Packages are badly sorted, I suppose the sorting algorithm takes into account single digits instead of the version numbers.

Example (see attached screenshot): the versions of dnsmasq are sorted in the following order:
2.9
2.8 (8 < 9)
2.5 (5 < 8)
2.15 (1 < 5, but 15 > 9!)
2.10 (10 < 15, but 10 > 9!)

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Luca Santarelli 2004-10-03 01:59:49 UTC]

Created attachment 40969 [details]
A screenshot of the wrong ordering for the package net-dns/dnsmasq

[Comment 2 Matthias Geerdsen (RETIRED) 2004-10-05 04:55:37 UTC]

Order is incorrect for release candidate ebuilds with _rc appended too. For example http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-php;name=php
where 4.3.9_rc1 is listed above 4.3.9, which would actually be the more recent version.

[Comment 3 Albert Hopkins (RETIRED) 2005-02-12 13:51:05 UTC]

Has been fixed for a while.  Using portage libs to sort list.