From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jan 31 5:34:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A93037B400 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 05:34:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0005.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.5] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16WHM9-00003M-00; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 05:34:26 -0800 Message-ID: <3C5947DC.DB3AD4B2@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 05:34:20 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: Sheldon Hearn , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adding support for a global src tree serial number References: <79300.1012474898@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <20020131131714.GA87780@madman.nectar.cc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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