Re: pkg_summary(5) ordering

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

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 01:43:08PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 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.

Scratch that. Yes, the order is undefined. Entries are separated by
empty line and that's the only constraint.

Joerg