Bug 2055011 - dnf: please use case-insensitive listings when sorting packages alphabetically
Summary: dnf: please use case-insensitive listings when sorting packages alphabetically
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf
Version: 37
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: rpm-software-management
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2022-02-16 08:01 UTC by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Modified: 2022-08-09 13:13 UTC (History)
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Description Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2022-02-16 08:01:23 UTC
Description of problem:
dnf prints at the end:
...
Installed:
  NetworkManager-1:1.36.0-0.10.fc37.x86_64  NetworkManager-libnm-1:1.36.0-0.10.fc37.x86_64               
  acl-2.3.1-3.fc36.x86_64                   alternatives-1.19-2.fc36.x86_64                              
  audit-3.0.7-1.fc36.x86_64                 audit-libs-3.0.7-1.fc36.x86_64                               
  authselect-1.3.0-10.fc37.x86_64           authselect-libs-1.3.0-10.fc37.x86_64                         
  basesystem-11-13.fc36.noarch              bash-5.1.16-2.fc36.x86_64                                    
  ...

For package names, the case is not important. In fact the guidelines nowadays
say that lowercase is preferred, and many packages have been renamed to be use lowercase,
and mainly old packages use camelcase. It would be more useful to sort the names
case-insensitively.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
all reversions

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2022-08-09 13:13:06 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 37 development cycle.
Changing version to 37.


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