Re: Binary Updates for DragonFly

["Alex Neundorf" <alex.neundorf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/16/07, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de> wrote:
> As soon as you compile stuff, you probably will get different binaries.
> If you update the kernel, you need to update the userland as well.
>
> If we had a way to identify from which sources a binary was compiled
> from, we could do upgrades more easily.  Maybe enhance gcc to include a
> checksum of the sources into the object?

I'm not sure this would be enough.
The binaries could be built with different features enabled (which use
a different set of libraries), with different compiler/linker options,
with different dependencies.

Alex