Re: Core rebuild in mock - BuildRequires - rpmdiffs normal ?

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan fenrus demon nl>]

> I did read that one of the points of rpm packaging was to have 
> repeatable package builds. While this doesn't seem to fit this scenario, 
> perhaps it is normal when re-compiling an i386 package on an AMD Athlon 
> with possibly updated libraries / compilers etc (from mock devel as 
> well) that the built binaries would change (eg, even if it was just text 
> fields like:
> # abcdtool
> Built on blah machine on Fri blah) ?

elfutils has a tool to compare two binaries and see if they're different
for real; eg ignoring usual "elf noise" ;)