nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/misc/diffoscope/ignore_links.patch

From a33e8018092e4a91dbc45e15bbeff760b3418512 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas.tynkkynen@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:53:38 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Ignore hard link counts

---
 diffoscope/comparators/directory.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/diffoscope/comparators/directory.py b/diffoscope/comparators/directory.py
index 3b195bc..9071bb3 100644
--- a/diffoscope/comparators/directory.py
+++ b/diffoscope/comparators/directory.py
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ else:
         FILE_RE = re.compile(r'^\s*File:.*$')
         DEVICE_RE = re.compile(r'Device: [0-9a-f]+h/[0-9]+d\s+')
         INODE_RE = re.compile(r'Inode: [0-9]+\s+')
+        LINKS_RE = re.compile(r'Links: [0-9]+\s+')
         ACCESS_TIME_RE = re.compile(r'^Access: [0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}.*$')
         CHANGE_TIME_RE = re.compile(r'^Change: [0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}.*$')
 
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@ else:
             line = Stat.FILE_RE.sub('', line)
             line = Stat.DEVICE_RE.sub('', line)
             line = Stat.INODE_RE.sub('', line)
+            line = Stat.LINKS_RE.sub('', line)
             line = Stat.ACCESS_TIME_RE.sub('', line)
             line = Stat.CHANGE_TIME_RE.sub('', line)
             return line.encode('utf-8')
-- 
2.13.0