On Tuesday 19 October 2004 12:25 pm, Nils Philippsen wrote: > On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 11:41 -0400, Scot Mc Pherson wrote: > > > I'd say this is to be expected because (ar) archives contain time > > > stamps which change with every build. That is also why I would expect > > > every RPM to have different checksums, because it again contains a > > > (cpio) archive which contains timestamps. > > > > > > Nils > > > > Of course, but that shouldn't change the file sizes. > > Sure it does ;-) as the contained archives are compressed and different > timestamps of files in there result in different data to be compressed > (the uncompressed archive) which will almost inevitably result in > different sizes of the compressed archive. > > Nils Ah well I don't mean the RPM file itself, I mean the contents of the RPM. The files themselves. For example, libc-2.3.3.so should always be the same size when built several times with the same toolchain. -- Scot Mc Pherson scot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linuxfromscratch.org/~scot http://beewiki.linuxfromscratch.org AIM: ScotLFS ICQ: 342949 MSN:behomet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
