bug#30210: pandoc not reproducible

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

>> The only file that differs is this:
>>
>>   
>> /gnu/store/8ynsssfjjdjbawndmjlnjlqrh027rl9g-ghc-pandoc-1.17.2-check/lib/ghc-7.10.2/ghc-pandoc-1.17.2.conf.d/package.cache
>>   
>> /gnu/store/8ynsssfjjdjbawndmjlnjlqrh027rl9g-ghc-pandoc-1.17.2/lib/ghc-7.10.2/ghc-pandoc-1.17.2.conf.d/package.cache
>
> At least they seem to contain the same strings albeit in a different
> order.  “diff <(strings a|sort) <(strings b|sort)” shows no
> differences.  (Of course there could be other differences than order,
> which simply don’t appear to be strings.)

That sounds like code using readdir(2) and not sorting the returned
entries, as was the case for gtk-update-icon-cache or whatever it’s
called.

Ludo’.