From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 8 1: 8:27 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 23C8837B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 01:08:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (h24-71-223-10.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9184343E42 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 01:08:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Colin_Percival@sfu.ca) Received: from pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr1so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.177]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H0I0019TMM0K6@l-daemon> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 08 Aug 2002 02:08:24 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml2so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.146]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H0I00LMDMM00H@l-daemon> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 08 Aug 2002 02:08:24 -0600 (MDT) Received: from piii600.sfu.ca (h24-79-84-133.vc.shawcable.net [24.79.84.133]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H0I00JAHMLZW8@l-daemon> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 08 Aug 2002 02:08:24 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 01:08:04 -0700 From: Colin Percival Subject: Re: release variability In-reply-to: <3D52209F.CC0B6DAA@mindspring.com> X-Sender: cperciva@popserver.sfu.ca To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-id: <5.0.2.1.1.20020808004942.02027a58@popserver.sfu.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Info-RBL1: ox.ac.uk filters email against various lists. X-Info-RBL2: If your replies bounce, try sending them to cperciva@sfu.ca References: <5.0.2.1.1.20020808000218.01fcd120@popserver.sfu.ca> 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 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 I'm putting together some code to identify out-of-date files based on their checksums and I wanted to make sure I wouldn't miss any "polymorphic" files.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