Make container layers captured using FS snapshots reproducible #714
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When a Dockerfile command requires using the TakeSnapshotFS function, the resulting layer has a random ordering of files. This causes the layer to have a non-deterministic hash defeating the reproducible flag. Issue GoogleContainerTools#710 appears to document this issue as well. To fix, always sort the list of files to be added in scanFullFilesystem. This avoids trying to sort the file list during execution, and takes almost no time to complete.
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When a Dockerfile command requires using the TakeSnapshotFS function,
the resulting layer has a random ordering of files. This causes the
layer to have a non-deterministic hash defeating the reproducible flag.
Issue #710 appears to document this issue as well.
To fix, always sort the list of files to be added in scanFullFilesystem.
This avoids trying to sort the file list during execution, and takes
almost no time to complete.
Note if it is wanted to only enable the sort when the reproducible flag is given, I have an alternate commit here.