[Aptitude-devel] Bug#814038: aptitude: Provide a way to reverse order with any of the available sorting criterias

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hi Axel,

2016-02-22 22:56 To Axel Beckert:
>2016-02-14 15:20 Axel Beckert:
>>
>>So it's solely a documentation issue. Raising severity from wishlist
>>to minor then and retitling the bug report accordingly.
>
>It's not documented in the man page, but then again in the --sort
>section doesn't contain the policy names and it refers to the on-line
>guide (which in my opinion is good, to not repeat information which can
>easily go out of sync).
>
> -O <order>, --sort <order>
>    Specify the order in which output from the search and versions
>    commands should be displayed. For instance, passing “installsize”
>    for <order> will list packages in order according to their size
>    when installed (see the section “Customizing how packages are
>    sorted” in the aptitude reference manual for more information).
>
>    The default sort order is name,version.
>
>
>And in the User's Manual (using the on-line version URLs):
>
> http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s05s01.html
>
> Customizing how packages are sorted
>
> By default, packages in the package list or in the output of aptitude
> search are sorted by name. However, it is often useful to sort them
> according to different criteria (for instance, package size), and
> aptitude allows you to do just that by modifying the sorting policy.
>
> Like the grouping policy described in the previous section, the
> sorting policy is a comma-separated list. Each item in the list is the
> name of a sorting rule; if packages are “equal” according to the first
> rule, the second rule is used to sort them, and so on. Placing a tilde
> character (~) in front of a rule reverses the usual meaning of that
> rule. For instance, priority,~name will sort packages by priority, but
> packages with the same priority will be placed in reverse order
> according to name.
>
>
>So it's already documented and I am satisfied with it as it is, although
>I don't know if you would prefer to make it more prominent.

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Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>