RE: rpmbuild producing different files

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> 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

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