RFC: Sort tarballs created by the src-release.sh script

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Guys,

   A contributor recently pointed out that the binutils release tarballs are
   not sorted by name, making it hard to reproducibly recreate them.  At first
   we thought that using tar's --sort=name option would solve this, but it
   turns out that the src-release.sh script creates its own list of input file
   names, so instead I am proposing this patch:

diff --git a/src-release.sh b/src-release.sh
index 079b545ae7c..caae5148034 100755
--- a/src-release.sh
+++ b/src-release.sh
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ do_tar()
      echo "==> Making $package-$ver.tar"
      rm -f $package-$ver.tar
      find $package-$ver -follow \( $CVS_NAMES \) -prune \
-	-o -type f -print \
+	-o -type f -print | sort \
  	| tar cTfh - $package-$ver.tar
  }

   Any comments or objections ?

Cheers
   Nick