Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 01:08:04 -0700 From: Colin Percival <Colin_Percival@sfu.ca> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: release variability Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.1.20020808004942.02027a58@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <3D52209F.CC0B6DAA@mindspring.com> References: <5.0.2.1.1.20020808000218.01fcd120@popserver.sfu.ca>
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At 00:41 08/08/2002 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: >Assuming identical source trees, and that the build takes place >on systems installed with the same software, the only things that >should be different are user, host, and time stamps. The kernel >is one place that's stamped; the boot code is another. Ok. I'm putting together some code to identify out-of-date files based on their checksums and I wanted to make sure I wouldn't miss any "polymorphic" files. >If you need to have confidence in this, and don't, then you >can try it, and then NFS mount and diff -r the ISO images. I tried to make 4.6-RELEASE, but it has unfortunately broken due to linkrot; http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/xhtml1.zip has changed since when June, causing a checksum mismatch while building one of the requisite ports. Colin Percival To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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