bug#30210: pandoc not reproducible

[Ricardo Wurmus]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> 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.

This package.cache problem has been fixed with commit
5de93cdba77db3777f8f026c029acadd7b8bdde3.

Unfortunately it is now bin/pandoc that differs across builds.

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Ricardo