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

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Wed Sep 28 13:34:47 GMT 2022


Hi Andreas,

> Better set LC_ALL=C to be independent from the locale sorting.
Like this ?

diff --git a/src-release.sh b/src-release.sh
index 079b545ae7c..8c2a8d897fd 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 | LC_ALL=C sort \
         | tar cTfh - $package-$ver.tar
  }


Cheers
   Nick

PS.  Would sort's --dictionary-order option have a similar effect ?



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