From 03349dfa716b7ed7e17dadff35571514e08245e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Herv=C3=A9=20Boutemy?= <hboutemy@apache.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 22:43:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] sort manually crafted descriptors files for reproducible
 builds

this closes #27
---
 .../plexus/metadata/DefaultMetadataGenerator.java        | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/plexus-component-metadata/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/metadata/DefaultMetadataGenerator.java b/plexus-component-metadata/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/metadata/DefaultMetadataGenerator.java
index 3a974c5af..d31999cb9 100644
--- a/plexus-component-metadata/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/metadata/DefaultMetadataGenerator.java
+++ b/plexus-component-metadata/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/metadata/DefaultMetadataGenerator.java
@@ -149,6 +149,15 @@ public int compare( ComponentDescriptor d1, ComponentDescriptor d2 )
         {
             File[] files = request.componentDescriptorDirectory.listFiles();
 
+            // Sort the files by name to make the output reproducible
+            Arrays.sort( files, new Comparator<File>()
+            {
+                public int compare( File f1, File f2 )
+                {
+                    return f1.getName().compareTo( f2.getName() );
+                }
+            });
+
             int added = 0;
             for ( File file : files )
             {