Bug 437217

Summary:	yast2-ncurses-pkg: sort by size
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Ludwig Nussel <lnussel>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Gabriele Mohr <gs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P4 - Low
Version:	Factory
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Attachments:	Screen-shot of the table before sorting

Description Ludwig Nussel 2008-10-21 08:56:22 UTC

yast2-ncurses-pkg lacks a feature to sort the displayed packages by size. That is useful to identify the worst offenders if the installation is too big.

Comment 1 Katarina Machalkova 2008-10-21 13:43:01 UTC

Heh :) Actually, you can sort any YaST ncurses table by pressing CTRL-O and selecting the sorting column of the table then. 
Due to some past issues (which I don't and can't remember) sorting has been disabled for ncurses package table - bug #143085. But as complete UI backend has been rewritten in a way it is not an issue now, it should be easy to fix

Low priority, though (it means I'm going to deal with it next time y2-storage starts to get on my nerves)

Comment 2 Katarina Machalkova 2008-11-21 16:08:55 UTC

This is done in yast2-ncurses-pk 2.17.11. Just press Ctrl-O over the table and pick any sort column from the popup.

Comment 3 Katarina Machalkova 2008-11-21 16:10:49 UTC

Created attachment 254419 [details]
Screen-shot of the table before sorting

Comment 4 Katarina Machalkova 2008-11-21 17:00:49 UTC

Argh, but ncurses UI is really stupid, it sorts the cell data as strings only, so it can happen that 1.0 M < 2.0 K, for example
Leaving the bug open, looking for some better approach.

Comment 6 Gabriele Mohr 2009-05-27 10:29:34 UTC

Sorting the package table by size works correctly now (yast2-ncurses-pkg-2.18.3).
The possibility to set a table sort strategy is added to NCTablePad (available with yast2-ncurses-2.18.9) and NCPkgTable sets a strategy which sorts the "Size" column by install size.