<div dir="ltr">What about passing the seed value (currently created based on last commit in repo you're building from - which doesn't need to be oe-core repository right?) to make it easier for people to pass whatever value works for them? even some constant value in DISTRO config.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 6:43 PM, Bystricky, Juro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:juro.bystricky@intel.com" target="_blank">juro.bystricky@intel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
> But not for 2 different builds with slightly modified metadata (e.g.<br>
> just because top commit is different in whatever build repository you're<br>
> running from even when it doesn't have any effect in your image), right?<br>
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</span>This may be addressed in the future. Presently, the goal is to ensure that if we<br>
use identical repositories we get identical results. This should not depend<br>
on the time/date, build folder or even Linux distro. By identical results<br>
I mean binary identical comparison of the resulting "deploy" folders.<br>
(images, packages, licenses). So for example, there should be no binary differences<br>
between the two images of core-image-minimal.rootfs.<wbr>ext4.<br>
In your case (slightly different repos), the difference would be presented<br>
as different time stamps for /etc/version and /etc/timestamp only.<br>
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> So it doesn't fix the files-in-image.txt differences as described in:<br>
> <a href="https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5866" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.<wbr>org/show_bug.cgi?id=5866</a><br>
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</span>Eventually it will. There is still ways to go and this patch set is just the first<br>
kick at the can.<br>
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