[Pulp-list] Package list order in repodata files

[Chris Taylor (chtaylo2)]

We have a Pulp server which acts as a master content provider. Subsequently we have global sites, running their own Pulp server which sync directly from the master. I’m finding during the publishing, each of the repodata/*XML* files have packages in random orders. 

For example:
Site 1:
$ curl https://<server1>/repodata/8da5461a50987cce81ca57a4e699edc64815c45024416cb74bdd431fd4748a31-primary.xml.gz | gunzip | grep '<name>' | head -n3
  <name>atomic-registries</name>
  <name>ansible</name>
  <name>cockpit-packagekit</name>

Site 2:
$ curl https://<server2>/repodata/79524dc840b7c913836ccc44d06ae0c5a3235abfde8d2af6a59bdc0f5a7e6c5b-primary.xml.gz | gunzip | grep '<name>' | head -n3
  <name>docker-client</name>
  <name>cockpit-machines</name>
  <name>kubernetes-client</name>


If you do a SORT + md5sum on the above files, they match so the order on the publishing is causing this. Is there any way to force consistent/alphabetical ordering of packages in these files?

Thanks!
/Chris
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