[Fedora-packaging] Updated kernel-module-packaging example with ndiswrapper (Was: example kernel-module package)

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Tue Jul 5 20:47:43 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 15:33 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 22:34 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>
> > - kernel-module-foo-1.0-1.src.rpm in repo
> > - check out the package from CVS, build for a new kernel
> >   -> get another kernel-module-foo-1.0-1.src.rpm which != the original
> 
> Why would the src.rpm not be the same as the original? The spec file and
> source tarball should be consistent, and not affected by a rebuild.

There are variables like build host, build time, file timestamps, file
modes, --define's passed to the srpm build, possibly other buildsys
configuration variations etc.  All of which are sort of cosmetic, but
nevertheless result in a different source rpm.




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