On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Joshua Root <j...@macports.org> wrote:
> > For now, I'd like to ask in what order does "registry::entry imaged" >> returns the port list? Because I'm running the sorting function which the >> restore_ports.tcl uses but it's giving me the ports in the same order as >> result. >> > > Probably just ordered by rowid, i.e. might as well be random. Note that > the sort_ports proc from restore_ports.tcl does not take a list of registry > references like registry::entry returns, but a list of strings representing > port names, versions and variants in the format generated by 'port > installed'. > `port installed` returns the result of `registry::entry imaged` sorted in an alphabetical order, first by name, then version etc. `registry::entry imaged` might be returning in a random order but sorting it (with ports coming before their dependencies) doesn't change the result at all. - Umesh