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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-02-21 20:17:29 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-02-21 23:49:53 +0100
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nar: Produce archives with files sorted in C collation order.
* guix/nar.scm (write-file) <directory>: Pass 'string<?' as the second argument to 'scandir'. * tests/nar.scm ("write-file puts file in C locale collation order"): New test.
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diff --git a/guix/nar.scm b/guix/nar.scm
index 9ba6e4ce2c..5bf174554c 100644
--- a/guix/nar.scm
+++ b/guix/nar.scm
@@ -177,8 +177,13 @@ sub-directories of FILE as needed."
((directory)
(write-string "type" p)
(write-string "directory" p)
- (let ((entries (remove (cut member <> '("." ".."))
- (scandir f))))
+ (let* ((select? (negate (cut member <> '("." ".."))))
+
+ ;; 'scandir' defaults to 'string-locale<?' to sort files, but
+ ;; this happens to be case-insensitive (at least in 'en_US'
+ ;; locale on libc 2.18.) Conversely, we want files to be
+ ;; sorted in a case-sensitive fashion.
+ (entries (scandir f select? string<?)))
(for-each (lambda (e)
(let ((f (string-append f "/" e)))
(write-string "entry" p)