ents are seen before the directories themselves.
+	env -i LC_COLLATE=C sort -u ${DESTDIR}/METALOG > ${DESTDIR}/METALOG.sorted
+	mv ${DESTDIR}/METALOG.sorted ${DESTDIR}/METALOG
+
 	case "${VMFS}" in
 	ufs)
 		cd ${DESTDIR} && ${MAKEFS} ${MAKEFSARGS} -o label=rootfs -o version=2 -o softupdates=1 \