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| author | Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com> | 2022-10-27 15:11:36 -0400 |
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| committer | Florian Festi <ffesti@redhat.com> | 2022-11-25 10:38:42 +0100 |
| commit | 4c6052c42aee71695a0c1bde0b674e2ad6f8c96b (patch) | |
| tree | ab2a0beb629b060278adfcb51e421ecf8577d252 /docs/man | |
| parent | 96f9b82e263bc83a4aacc1d8ccd729170b1a2676 (diff) | |
| download | rpm-4c6052c42aee71695a0c1bde0b674e2ad6f8c96b.tar.gz | |
Add rpmsort utility for sorting RPM versions
rpmsort(8) is intended for use in shell scripts. sort(1) is not RPM
versioning-aware, and attempting to work around that is fraught.
Instead, provide a wrapper around rpmvercmp() using qsort().
Fedora's grub2 has carried a version of this since 2015, and a more
complex version was also part of the grubby project (provided at
/usr/libexec/grubby/rpm-sort) since 2018. This version has been
simplified and adapted to the RPM project.
Also-authored-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/man')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/man/CMakeLists.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/man/index.md | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/man/rpmsort.8.md | 38 |
3 files changed, 40 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/man/CMakeLists.txt b/docs/man/CMakeLists.txt index c59a879cb..e34dd1ee9 100644 --- a/docs/man/CMakeLists.txt +++ b/docs/man/CMakeLists.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ set(manuals gendiff.1 rpm2cpio.8 rpm.8 rpmbuild.8 rpmdb.8 rpmkeys.8 rpmsign.8 rpmspec.8 - rpmdeps.8 rpmgraph.8 rpmlua.8 rpm-misc.8 + rpmdeps.8 rpmgraph.8 rpmlua.8 rpm-misc.8 rpmsort.8 ) if (WITH_ARCHIVE) diff --git a/docs/man/index.md b/docs/man/index.md index dfd274f20..a3c837a0f 100644 --- a/docs/man/index.md +++ b/docs/man/index.md @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ title: rpm.org - RPM Manual Pages * [rpmdb (8)](rpmdb.8.md) * [rpmkeys (8)](rpmkeys.8.md) * [rpmsign (8)](rpmsign.8.md) +* [rpmsort (8)](rpmsort.8.md) * [rpmspec (8)](rpmspec.8.md) * [gendiff (1)](gendiff.1.md) diff --git a/docs/man/rpmsort.8.md b/docs/man/rpmsort.8.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ddf0eed97 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/man/rpmsort.8.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +date: 27 October 2022 +section: 8 +title: RPMSORT +--- + +NAME +==== + +rpmsort - Sort input by RPM Package Manager (RPM) versioning. + +SYNOPSIS +======== + +**rpmsort** *FILES* + +DESCRIPTION +=========== + +**rpmsort** sorts the input files, and writes a sorted list to standard out - +like sort(1), but aware of RPM versioning. + +If \'-\' is given as an argument, or no arguments are given, versions are read +from stdandard in and writen to standard out. + +EXAMPLES +======== + +\ +***$ echo -e 'rpm-4.18.0-3.fc38.x86_64\nrpm-4.18.0-1.fc38.x86_64' | rpmsort \ +rpm-4.18.0-1.fc38.x86_64 \ +rpm-4.18.0-3.fc38.x86_64*** + +AUTHORS +======= + + Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> + Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com> |