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From: Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk>
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Den 11/10/2010 kl. 10.47 skrev Kostik Belousov:
>
> My personal opinion that the feature is nice to have. Unless the =
changes to
> get this working are too large, and, more importantly, unless the =
maintenance
> cost of having this in good shape is too high, sure we would better =
have
> deterministic build results.
>=20
> Also, the deterministic builds require somebody who would monitor the
> feature, either manually, or by setting some bot that automatically
> checks it. Otherwise, I suspect, it will degrade.

I might want to adopt the task of monitoring the feature.

I'm beginning to think that it should at least be optional. Removing =
e.g. build times, mtimes and path to OBJDIR or SRCDIR might not make =
everyone happy.

Any hints to why kernel module checksums don't match?

Thanks,
Erik=

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