diff --git a/0001-qapi-ensure-stable-sort-ordering-when-checking-QAPI-.patch b/0001-qapi-ensure-stable-sort-ordering-when-checking-QAPI-.patch
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+From f7a5376d4b667cf6c83c1d640e32d22456d7b5ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
+Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:42:10 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] qapi: ensure stable sort ordering when checking QAPI entities
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Some early python 3.x versions will have different default
+ordering when calling the 'values()' method on a dict, compared
+to python 2.x and later 3.x versions. Explicitly sort the items
+to get a stable ordering.
+
+Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
+Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
+Message-Id: <20180116134217.8725-8-berrange@redhat.com>
+Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
+---
+ scripts/qapi.py | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/scripts/qapi.py b/scripts/qapi.py
+index 1fdd189c0d..58f995b07f 100644
+--- a/scripts/qapi.py
++++ b/scripts/qapi.py
+@@ -1678,7 +1678,7 @@ class QAPISchema(object):
+                 assert False
+ 
+     def check(self):
+-        for ent in self._entity_dict.values():
++        for (name, ent) in sorted(self._entity_dict.items()):
+             ent.check(self)
+ 
+     def visit(self, visitor):
+-- 
+2.14.3
+