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Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 22:31:20 +0000
From: Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org>
To: Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de>
Cc: doc@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: porters-handbook: suggestion
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In-Reply-To: <200301121912.h0CJCY6c039300@vran.herceg.de>; from slaven@rezic.de on Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 08:12:34PM +0100
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On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 08:12:34PM +0100, Slaven Rezic wrote:
> By inserting "sort -r" directories are sorted effectively by length,
> so it is assured that parent directories are not deleted before their
> subdirectories.

That's not quite how "sort -r" works: it sorts reverse alphabetically,
not by length.  This has the right effect for creating the package
list, though, so I've updated the Porter's Handbook based on your
suggestion.

Thanks,
Tom

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