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

[David Timms <dtimms bigpond net au>]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 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" ;)
OK,
# eu-elfcmp ncopy mock/ncopy
eu-elfcmp: ncopy mock/ncopy differ: symbol table [4]

Can someone offer an interpretation of this ?

DaveT.