Dear maintainer, On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:14:44PM +0200, Reiner Herrmann wrote: > While working on the "reproducible builds" effort [1], we have noticed > that the behaviour of rdfind is depending on the filesystem order. > When finding duplicates and replacing them with symlinks, the file > that was last created/modified(?) will be used as the destination, > which is not deterministic. > > The attached patch will sort the file list by filenames before any > operation is performed on it. This will result in a deterministic > behaviour, so that packages using rdfind can be built reproducibly.
I'd like to ask you if you can look at this patch here.
It's very straigh forward and I'd say widely tested to behave as
expected.
We wouldn't mind an upload with this :)
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