[GNC-dev] Flatpak GnuCash and Finance::Quote

[Geert Janssens]

Bruce,

This is a good tip!

At least the sources can be sorted deterministically in alphabetical order. The order of this list 
is not relevant for the build.

The order of the build rules is (all the calls to make-install). And unfortunately that  list is still 
shuffled each time flatpak-cpan-generator.pl is run. Each variation is a proper build order, but 
it does shuffle around.

I guess we can live with this for now. If the sources are already sorted consistently, we have 
an easier time tracking when dependencies change.

Regards,

Geert

Op donderdag 13 oktober 2022 03:05:51 CEST schreef Bruce Schuck:
> Geert,
> 
> One additional note. In the README for gnucash-on-flatpak, you or some
> one else notes about the flatpak-cpan-generator.pl script:
> 
> "Note I have found the script to be not very version control friendly:
> generated-sources.json will change a lot between runs. It will have the
> exact same sources and dependencies, but they are shuffled around.
> Experiments indicate this is already due to the way cpanminus handles
> dependency resolution. The order in which same-level dependencies are
> processed is not stable. A minor annoyance I can live with for now."
> 
> May I suggest using the 'jq' tool.
> 
> The command "cat generated-sources.json | jq -S 'sort_by(.dest)'" will
> sort both the keys in each section (you will notice that the raw file
> may contain one module's data listed as url, dest, type, sha256; then
> the next as dest, type, sha256, url) and order the modules
> alphabetically in the output (I have not yet figured an easy way to
> ignore case).
> 
> When building a test flatpak on Ubuntu 22.04 I had to change the
> build-command in modules/perl.json to "perl-libs/install.sh" from
> "install.sh".
> 
> - Bruce S.