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On Tue, 17 May 2011 17:52:32 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 17 May 2011 15:42:35 Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo |
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>> up- |
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>> to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. |
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>> Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous |
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>> polkit- |
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>> kde-authentication-agent-1 segmentation fault. |
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>> On the other machine there is no problem. |
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>> How can one smartly compare two Gentoo installations. |
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>> Currently I would have to produce an md5sum of all files in |
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>> /etc /usr /var and / and compare these. But there are dozens of |
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>> thousands of files in these directories. |
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>> |
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> |
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> won't work. Even if the binaries in /usr are compiled with the same |
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> settings, |
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> just the different times of creation will result in different |
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> md5sums. |
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> |
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> What you want to do is: find the bug. |
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As far as i remember, i don't see why modification times will enter in |
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the md5sum computation process, as they are not part of the file but of |
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the filesystem's inode... it's definitely possible to compare two |
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binaries on two different system if they are compiled with the same |
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compiler version and libraries ! |
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