Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: deterministic PKGINFO libprovides for multiple library versions

On 5/10/20 6:45 PM, anthraxx@archlinux.org wrote:

From: Levente Polyak

While iterating over the provides array, the find call for locating a shared library may result in listing multiple entries which by itself does not produce a stable deterministic order and may vary depending on the underlying filesystem. To provide a stable listing and a reproducible .PKGINFO file the result of find is piped to sort with a static LC_ALL=C localisation.

Wait, what. Do we have packages with libprovides providing multiple versions of a shared library? I mean yes, given this possibility it does seem like we'd need to sort them, but still... why does this exist? :p -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User