Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 21:48:57 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HELP WANTED: Figure out why svnlite build is sometimes not reproducible Message-ID: <20131028044857.GE58155@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <526D7FBB.3060506@freebsd.org> References: <526D7FBB.3060506@freebsd.org>
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Colin Percival wrote this message on Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 14:03 -0700:
> Doing freebsd-update builds, I've now had two instances where /usr/bin/svnlite
> has built inexplicably differently -- changes scattered all over the binary.
> This is a problem for freebsd-update because it means that at some point in the
> future the builds may not be able to correctly identify if that binary needs to
> be distributed as part of a security update.
>
> The svn* binaries had build date+time stamps in them until I nuked them in
> r257129, but those are cleanly self-contained -- this is something else building
> differently.
>
> Unfortunately despite the freebsd-update builds running into this, I haven't
> been able to reproduce it myself and so I can't track down what is causing this.
>
> If anyone can provide assistance with this, it would be very gratefully received.
Can you post the binaries somewhere so we can take a look at them?
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