> So in trying to do some more testing I downloaded the FC2 Bison SRPM > and wrote a script to build it 100 times and name the rpms with a > timestamp. Well all 100 had different md5sums, and a nice bell curve > distribution on the file sizes. What is interesting is that I > extracted the RPMS and every file in the RPM save one has the same > md5sum. For the Bison rpm this is 'liby.a'. As long as I know there are object files timestamp incorporated into the archive files. (Try objdump -a liby.a) So it's not a surprise, that md5sum for liby.a is different from one build to another. Valery _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list