Re: rpmbuild producing different files

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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.

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