Debian Bug report logs - #400467
coreutils: support IP address sorting

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Norbert Kiesel <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: coreutils: support IP address sorting

Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 05:15:57 -0800

Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.2
Severity: wishlist

Hi,
I would really like to have an option to sort by IP address (IPv4 and
IPv6).  The existing solutions (e.g. "-t. -n -k1,1 -k2,2 -k3,3 -k4,4")
are not really usable if the IP address is not the first field and are
also very clumbsy.  Sorting by date would be nice too, but is more
complicated due to whitespace in dates.

If I write a patch, should I submit it to you or to upstream?

Best,
  Norbert

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.2
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libacl1                      2.2.41-1    Access control list shared library
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                  1.32-3      SELinux shared libraries

coreutils recommends no packages.

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Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Norbert Kiesel <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: coreutils: working but still incomplete patch

Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:52:50 -0800

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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.2
Followup-For: Bug #400467

Hi,
here is a ptahc that does implement IP address sorting.  It currently
only does IPv4 (though adding IPv6 would not be complicated).  What's
still missing is documentation and possibly configure checks for
inet_pton and ntohl.  Any chance something like this could be added?

Best,
  Norbert

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.2
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libacl1                      2.2.41-1    Access control list shared library
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                  1.32-3      SELinux shared libraries

coreutils recommends no packages.

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Message #15 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Stone <[email protected]>

To: Norbert Kiesel <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#400467: coreutils: support IP address sorting

Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:03:29 -0500

On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 05:15:57AM -0800, Norbert Kiesel wrote:
>If I write a patch, should I submit it to you or to upstream?

Upstream. There's zero chance of that going in as a debian-specific 
patch.

Mike Stone

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