Additional Sorting Factors Considered When ls_compare_vendor_on_upgrade or ls_compare_vendor_on_increment Is Enabled
Additional Sorting Factors Considered When ls_compare_vendor_on_upgrade or ls_compare_vendor_on_increment Is Enabled
When the vendor variable ls_compare_vendor_on_upgrade or ls_compare_vendor_on_increment (or both) is set to 1 (that is, enabled), the following sorting rules are applied:
If features are pooled based on the VENDOR_STRING, the value for VENDOR_STRING in the FEATURE and INCREMENT lines is considered during the sorting process.
The sorting mechanism processes the ASCII value of each character (from left to right) in the VENDOR_STRING value to determine sort order. For example, the VENDOR_STRING value *STRING1* is sorted to a higher position than *STRING2*.
The FEATURE line for the same FEATURE is considered only if it ends up at the top of all the other lines once all FEATURE and INCREMENT lines are sorted. Otherwise, the FEATURE line is ignored.
The FEATURE line is automatically sorted and placed at the top of all the other lines when vendor variables are not enabled (that is, the VENDOR_STRING value is ignored in the sorting process). Hence, FEATURE line is considered with its feature count .
