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Build a gentoo system each day for seven days on the same hardware with the same configuration(package versions, USE flags, etc) and see how well they match up.
by kitotik 9y ago
Build a gentoo system each day for seven days on the same hardware with the same configuration(package versions, USE flags, etc) and see how well they match up.
- korethr 9y agoOkay, I'm tempted now, partly out of a someone-might-be-wrong-on-the-Internet cussedness, and partly out of curiosity. By what metrics would you propose measuring how consistent the systems are or are not?
- TheDong 9y agoBinpkgs output from builds on the same machine are often bit-for-bit identical. It, of course, depends on the project; if the ./configure script drops the current date in source code, it'll be different, but that doesn't happen often.
- laumars 9y agoI have done this. I used to manage a fleet of 50 servers with everything built from source aside the base Linux install and build utilities. They were all identical.