Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 05:34:20 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.cc> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adding support for a global src tree serial number Message-ID: <3C5947DC.DB3AD4B2@mindspring.com> References: <79300.1012474898@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <20020131131714.GA87780@madman.nectar.cc>
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"Jacques A. Vidrine" wrote: > = The serial number could be the MD5 of the source tree from which the > system was compiled: > tar -C /usr/src --exclude CVS -cf - . | md5 > I'm currently running 4.5-RELEASE build 10c5be07ecd40c66fc126dd57afd934c. Uh... are you sure a cryptographic hash of the source you have is going to give enough information for a kernel hacker to recreate the binaries that are causing the problem that resulted in the bug report? I guess I could just check out by second since the start of the source tree, until the hashes matched? 8-) 8-) 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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