Erik Cederstrand <e...@cederstrand.dk> wrote: > It seems I can at least normalize the .a files using something > like the following to weed out timestamps and uid/gid: > > % ar -x /usr/lib/libfetch.a > % chown 0:0 * > % touch -t 197001010000 * > % ar -r libfetch.a `ar -t /usr/lib/libfetch.a` > > ... Unfortunately it seems there's still a creation time of the > archive itself that I cant alter using the above, so the md5 sums > still don't match: > > % diff mod.strings orig.strings > 2c2 > < / 1286312209 0 0 0 958 ` > --- > > / 1269146263 0 0 0 958 `
Any particular reason to recollect them into an archive, if the point is just to check md5 signatures? I'm pretty sure collecting them with tar instead will avoid this problem. _______________________________________________ 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"
