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

[Eli Schwartz]

On 5/10/20 6:45 PM, anthraxx at archlinux.org wrote:
> From: Levente Polyak <anthraxx at archlinux.org>
> 
> 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

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