Sort the leaves of the merkle tree for deterministic tree generation

Signed-off-by: marinamoore <[email protected]>

Author: mnm678

tuf/repository_lib.py

@@ -1662,7 +1662,7 @@ def build_merkle_tree(fileinfodict):
   # leaf contains snapshot information for a single metadata file.
   leaves = []
   nodes = []
-  for name, contents in fileinfodict.items():
+  for name, contents in sorted(fileinfodict.items()):
     if name.endswith(".json"):
       name = os.path.splitext(name)[0]
     leaves.append(Leaf(name, contents))