diff --git a/rpmlint-mini.changes b/rpmlint-mini.changes
index 20de69f..6c91f2a 100644
--- a/rpmlint-mini.changes
+++ b/rpmlint-mini.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Dec  6 15:42:19 UTC 2019 - Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com>
+
+- Sort file list to build .pyc files reproducibly
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Nov 19 12:36:58 UTC 2019 - matthias.gerstner@suse.com
 
diff --git a/rpmlint-mini.spec b/rpmlint-mini.spec
index b9e32a6..f95e3a6 100644
--- a/rpmlint-mini.spec
+++ b/rpmlint-mini.spec
@@ -100,7 +100,10 @@ PYTHONOPTIMIZE=1 python3 -O -m compileall -b *.py
 rm *.py
 popd
 pushd %{buildroot}/opt/testing/%{_lib}/python%{py3_ver}/
-PYTHONOPTIMIZE=1 find -name \*.py -exec python3 -O -m compileall -b {} \; -delete
+for f in `find -name \*.py | sort` ; do
+  PYTHONOPTIMIZE=1 python3 -O -m compileall -b $f
+  rm $f
+done
 popd
 find %{buildroot}/opt/testing/ -name __pycache__  -print -exec rm -Rf {} +
 rm -rf %{buildroot}/{usr,etc}