Hi,

as discussed yesterday after the daily call there is a small
change to libstorage-ng:

Change:

libstorage-ng now provides compare functions,
e.g. Partitionable::compare_by_name(), to sort devices. As a
countermove functions that retrieve vectors of devices no longer
sort the result.

Motivation:

- Allow to sort a combined list of e.g. disks and DASDs
  individual retrieved by Disk::get_all() and Dasd::get_all().

- Allow special sorting, e.g. disks in general by name but USB
  disks at the end (see
  
https://github.com/openSUSE/libstorage-ng/tree/master/integration-tests/misc/list-disks.py).

- Avoid sorting when it is unneeded.

Notes:

- The compare functions are C++ style: Compare for less than and
  return a boolean. When used in Python or Ruby the result must
  likely be mapped to ±1. The interface may change when C++
  supports the spaceship operator.

- Most compare functions are trivial.

- Some functions in libstorage-ng still sort the result since
  that is currently needed by the yast2-storage-ng testsuite
  (LvmLvs AFAIS) and the expert partitioner.

ciao
  Arvin

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