infinite compilation loop, differences

[Jeff Macdonald]

On 9/15/05, Rakotomandimby Mihamina
<mihamina.rakotomandimby at etu.univ-orleans.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am loop compiling a kernel src.rpm with
> (it's a zsh shell)
> 
> $ cd /usr/src
> $ while (1=1) do :
>   {
>     rpmbuild -ba --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec
>   }
>   done
> 
> Then, each binary has not the same size.
> Is it normal?

Surely the build time/date header of the rpm file is different:

rpm -qi kernel
..
Build Date: Sat 19 Feb 2005 11:03:05 PM EST
..

-- 
Jeff Macdonald
Ayer, MA