diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/compress-man-pages.sh b/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/compress-man-pages.sh
index 82e48cd8aa77..f5af76e8168f 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/compress-man-pages.sh
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/compress-man-pages.sh
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ compressManPages() {
 
     # Point symlinks to compressed manpages.
     find "$dir"/share/man/ -type l -a '!' -regex '.*\.\(bz2\|gz\)$' -print0 \
+        | sort -z \
         | while IFS= read -r -d $'\0' f
     do
         local target