On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:30:03PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Humberto Massa wrote: > > >>They do not really, provided you keep about all the intermediate .o files of > >>the preceding build, depending on the security fix naturally. > > > > My points are: (1) this is feasible/viable > > No it isn't. (a) the disk space requirements are humungous. (b) currently > we do not verify that rebuilding without an intervening "make clean" > works, i.e. that all dependencies are set up correctly. In fact, Policy > mandates the "make clean" between builds. Therefore (c) you can't assume > that your fixed source will result in fixed binaries. This is a security > fix, so it's especially important that the binaries get fixed.
BTW, what about ccache ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
