Re: pkg_summary(5) ordering

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:26:29AM +0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 at 08:26, Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is anyone aware of any utilities that depend on the rather ad-hoc (and
> > not guaranteed, e.g. CONFLICTS can come before PKGNAME depending on
> > plist order) ordering of pkg_summary(5) entries?
> 
> If I understand your question correctly, pkgin does. The ordering is
> done by `pkg_info -X *gz | bzip2 > pkg_summary.bz2`.

PKGNAME is required to be the first field, everything else can be in any
order. Programs that depend on more are broken.

Joerg