Re: pkg_summary(5) ordering

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2019-08-29 at 12:26 CEST, 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`.

pkgin does not depend on specific ordering.

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