On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 03:28:36PM +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > Hello hackers, > > I got reminded of a problem I had a couple of years back compressing > FreeBSD jails. I was using bsdiff for the compression and found out > that md5 sums of static libraries (.a files) in /usr/lib and > /usr/local/lib didn't match between jails, even though the source > code used to create the jails hadn't changed. One of my goals is to > detect which files in a distribution change between two commits. > > It turns out that timestamps are stored in the library:
Yes, they are. That is because the file format used for static libraries include a timestamp for each object file stored in the archive. You can use 'ar -tv /PATH/TO/LIBRARY/libfoo.a' to get a list of the objects stored in the archive and the corresponding timestamps. See the ar(5) manpage for a description of the file format, and the ar(1) manpage for information on how to manage such files. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
