contents list sorting needed

[jpm@…]

say the main contents list is:

contents \

a/1 \ a/2 \ a \ b/5 \ b

and a variant also installs the file 'a/3' and uses:

contents-append \

a/3

when the contents list is created, it is not sorted and 'a/3' is tacked on the end. uninstall failures can avalanche from this implementation detail. obviously this is a simple case but it can save needing to create several contents list for a single differing line...

[jpm@…]

think i have this one nailed:

portuninstall.tcl:85 set contents [lsort -decreasing [lindex $entry [incr ix]]]

this should be able to handle all sorts of contents list mayhem. i need to test this more before i submit it for review but in my shallow tests it has handled all out-of-order contents registrations i have thrown its way.

with this change, port maintainers do not need to worry about the order their port elements are registered. while good practice it will no longer cause uninstall failures....

[jpm@…]

adds contents list ordering at uninstall

[jpm@…]

patch merged 08:08 GMT/UTC 2003/01/14