----- Forwarded message from Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org> ----- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 22:03:01 -0700 From: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org> To: linux-elitists@zgp.org Subject: Re: [linux-elitists] Surveillance X-Mailer: Some Outlooks can't quote properly without this header User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 08:00:04PM -0700, Seth David Schoen wrote:

Marc MERLIN writes:

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On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 06:59:48PM -0700, Don Marti wrote:

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Can you build on localhost and have it come out identical to what comes down from the build farm?

Yes.

Do you think you could help distributors help other users achieve the same result? That's awesome.

There is no magic involved, it's just time consuming and virtually no companies have staff they are willing to spend on it. Also, that's a server distribution with fewer than 200 packages. My laptop: gandalfthegreat:~$ dpkg --list | wc -l 3061 server #1: magic:~$ dpkg --list | wc -l 1195 server #2: gargamel:~# dpkg --list | wc -l 2685 You get the point, it's time consuming, especially if you're checking / stripping each package first, including fixing parts that make the package non invariant on rebuilds. We also had a package diff-er that accounted for zipped man pages, pyc files, and other files that changed each time you rebuilt them. But really, not rocket science. Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ _______________________________________________ Do not Cc: anyone else on mail sent to this list. The list server is set for maximum one recipient. linux-elitists mailing list linux-elitists@zgp.org http://zgp.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-elitists ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5