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Date:      Tue, 4 Jun 2019 12:50:32 -0400
From:      Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r348611 - in head/sys: conf kern
Message-ID:  <CAPyFy2A7p5aJCdD_HYS0oMWsFeU63wqZRygUcaU7q3XGGLc8SA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <0708f493570462d065fa0ba3c361832720e60741.camel@freebsd.org>
References:  <201906041307.x54D7Acf058688@repo.freebsd.org> <0708f493570462d065fa0ba3c361832720e60741.camel@freebsd.org>

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On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 10:58, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2019-06-04 at 13:07 +0000, Ed Maste wrote:
> > Author: emaste
> > Date: Tue Jun  4 13:07:10 2019
> > New Revision: 348611
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/348611
> >
> > Log:
> >   Expose the kernel's build-ID through sysctl
> >
> >   After our migration (of certain architectures) to lld the kernel is built
> >   with a unique build-ID.  Make it available via a sysctl and uname(1) to
> >   allow the user to identify their running kernel.
> >
>
> Won't this impact WITH_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD?

No, if the object is otherwise identical the build-ID will also be identical.

(The linker does support --build-id=uuid which will generate a random
build-id, but we don't (and nobody should) use that.)



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