Re: [OSSTEST PATCH] make-flight: reorganize scheduling related test jobs

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>]

On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 11:10 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [OSSTEST PATCH] make-flight: reorganize scheduling related test jobs"):
> > On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 16:56 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > That's what I meant, exactly.  But looking at it shows that it would
> > > benefit from being the output of
> > >   ./mg-show-flight-runvars standalone | sort
> > 
> > FWIW I've often thought that mg-show-flight-runvars sorts on the wrong
> > column, at least for the majority of my use cases.
> 
> It's more useful for it to sort on a non-initial column.  If you
> wanted it sorted on the initial column, you can use sort(1).  Whereas
> after your patch, if I want to see all the values of a particular
> variable in all the jobs, I have to do something complicated.

Like grep ;-)

> So if you're going to change this please add an option to make it sort
> the other way.  When I last considered this I thought it more effort
> than it was worth...

Yeah, I think I just need to learn to remember to sort. My finger macros
will figure it out eventually.

Ian.