Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Apr 2007 18:53:18 -0300 | From | "Edgardo Hames" <> | Subject | Re: Rebuilding and checksumming the Linux kernel |
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On 4/1/07, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 03:56:30PM -0300, Edgardo Hames wrote: > > I'm working on a project with teams spread across the world and we all > > work on the same repository patching the kernel and then integrating > > into a common main branch. Even though we label the source code, we > > would like to make sure that we are all building the same kernel by > > running md5sum on the resulting binary. > > > > Right now, this is not possible because the kernel includes a > > timestamp and a build number on the binary. What are this timestamps > > used for? Can we just remove them? Is there any other thing that may > > lead to different binaries? (we are using the exact toolchains and > > build machines, so we can assume that the same executable is generated > > if the input source is the same). > > Soon you will be able to say: > > KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP="2007-02-30 01:02.03" KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION=99 make > > It will hit -mm soon and mainline in next merge window. > Patch is in kbuild.git at git.kernel.org.
This is so much more than I could have asked for! I will try this patch on my version of the kernel.
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