port installed should list versions in natural order

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

"port installed" seems to list software versions in ASCII order instead of natural order.

A reproduction recipe follows, but you'll need Subversion installed, and your ports tree must be a Subversion working copy instead of an rsync directory.

If you don't already have apr 1.2.11 installed, install it:

$ svn up -r 28770 `port dir apr`
$ sudo port install apr

If you don't already have apr 1.2.8 and 1.2.9 installed, install them:

$ sudo -s
Password:
$ cd /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/apr
$ curl -O http://archive.apache.org/dist/apr/apr-1.2.8.tar.bz2
$ svn up -r 22846 `port dir apr`
$ port install apr
$ curl -O http://archive.apache.org/dist/apr/apr-1.2.9.tar.bz2
$ svn up -r 26846 `port dir apr`
$ port install apr

It'll complain about already-installed versions. Nevermind that. Now see the list of installed versions of apr:

$ port installed apr
The following ports are currently installed:
  apr @1.2.11_0 (active)
  apr @1.2.8_0
  apr @1.2.9_0
$

It would be better if these were listed in natural order, e.g. with 1.2.11 coming after 1.2.9.

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macports-portsort.patch

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Patch attached to sort in NVR (name@version_revision) order

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Thanks for being so quick on this! Your code looks great... but for some reason I've applied the patch to trunk and rebuilt port but it's not doing anything different. I tried inserting ui_debug and ui_msg statements into the portlist_compare function to see what it's doing but they're not getting printed either. Any ideas?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Oh, I see now, portlist_compare is only called for port list but I'm not using port list; I'm using port installed... How do we apply this fix for port installed?

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Hmm, maybe that calls a different sort/order function (or doesn't sort at all)

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Fixed, r32721.

Resorted the results from "port installed", to make sure it was printed sorted.

[tobypeterson]

Milestone MacPorts base bugs deleted