Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 17:37:23 +0400 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Deterministic builds Message-ID: <20111209133722.GC91429@lo0.su> In-Reply-To: <F813133F-485D-4612-A695-42206E44B28A@cederstrand.dk> References: <F813133F-485D-4612-A695-42206E44B28A@cederstrand.dk>
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On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 12:16:39PM +0100, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > I've been working on a project to make it possible to produce deterministic > builds with FreeBSD. By this I mean building a FreeBSD distribution twice > from the same code base and having all files in the two distributions match > by md5 sum. Currently, this is not the case. [...] > I'd be very grateful for any comments on the approach and the patch. The idea is not new. Setting CROSS_BUILD_TESTING during the buildworld addressed similar issues at a time I wrote it, to compare cross builds to native ones, with several exceptions. I haven't tested it for years, so things might have changed, but it's still a good idea to give it a try.
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