From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 8 0:43:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A50A037B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 00:43:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CCD243E6A for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 00:43:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0216.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.216] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17chwf-0000lC-00; Thu, 08 Aug 2002 00:42:57 -0700 Message-ID: <3D52209F.CC0B6DAA@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 00:41:19 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Colin Percival Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: release variability References: <5.0.2.1.1.20020808000218.01fcd120@popserver.sfu.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Colin Percival wrote: > If two people `make release` on different machines, how much difference > will there be between the results? Obviously the kernel will be different > because it contains the user and host names from its build; should > everything else be the same? 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. If you have ports installed on the host system, the tar balls are copied into the build environment before the build occurs, as well, so that could add an element of variablity. 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. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message