Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:05:37 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> Cc: Oleg Moskalenko <oleg.moskalenko@citrix.com>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CFT: new BSD-licensed sort available Message-ID: <44ty1p76lq.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <CAETOPp2VPY3ryB5-s2Ysn4LToAKy536QAZ3b2=EuSd6ywtCu_g@mail.gmail.com> (Jos Backus's message of "Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:32:05 -0700") References: <4F60C059.7060904@FreeBSD.org> <44pqcd8yhd.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <CADLo83_r3SgYj6apifN6NTCwZ-ApYbLkyMOS5zcCmTFst_Vcow@mail.gmail.com> <031222CBCF33214AB2EB4ABA279428A30107B5E9D2A6@SJCPMAILBOX01.citrite.net> <44d38d8qad.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <447gyl8nss.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <4439998mwx.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <CAETOPp2VPY3ryB5-s2Ysn4LToAKy536QAZ3b2=EuSd6ywtCu_g@mail.gmail.com>
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Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> writes: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Lowell Gilbert > <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: >> Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> writes: >> >>> Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> writes: >>> >>>> Oleg Moskalenko <oleg.moskalenko@citrix.com> writes: >>>> >>>>> There is no option "-2" in the new BSD sort or in the GNU sort. There= is no such option in Posix standard, too. >>>>> >>>>> What is this option about, do we need to add something ? >>>> >>>> No, clearly I have misdiagnosed the problem. >>>> I'll take another look. >>>> >>>> Sorry for the confusion. >>> >>> I think I'll need to dig into portsdb itself a bit. >>> >>>> =A0 =A0Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait= .. >>>> =A0 =A0sort: invalid option -- 2 >>> >>> I'll let you know what I find. >> >> This is taking longer than I had hoped; apparently I am handicapped by >> the fact that I do not know ruby at all. I am having difficulty finding >> a call out to the sort program, as opposed to sort routines implemented >> in ruby. > > portsdb.rb: open("| sort #{index_files}", 'r:utf-8') do |f| > > Hth, > Jos Thanks, it does help somewhat. Unfortunately, I had already tried to instrument that line, and didn't get anything useful. I probably still need to learn a bit more ruby in order to figure out precisely where the '2' comes in.
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