At 11:58 10/08/2002 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: >Colin Percival wrote: > > Files which are always the same size, but seem to have completely different > > contents: > > /usr/share/games/fortune/*.dat > > /var/games/phantasia/void > >This is disturbing.
Upon further investigation, it turns out that the fortune files vary because `strfile` is instructed to randomize the order of the fortunes; as far as I can tell, this serves no purpose since `fortune` picks a random fortune anyway. (Two line patch to /usr/src/games/fortune/datfiles/Makefile) /var/games/phantasia/void is explicitly randomly generated; I'm not sure what purpose it serves. >For library files, there's nothing you can do, since it's the >archive date, and .o files are assembled from multiple source >files. > >Some of the generated files with timestamps really want to use >the timestamp of the modification date of the sources, rather >than the creation date of hte object. > >Correcting this is relatively minor; it's one of the reasons I >suggested NFS mounting the sources; I imagine you would have a >much worse time otherwise. Actually I didn't NFS mount the sources, since I didn't understand how that would help. I'll try that and see if there it makes any difference. >The hardest part has got to be the archive >files; I don't see how it could be avoided, without destroying >information, at least in the archive update case, and probably >in the archive recreation from object files case. Could someone point me towards information on what these values are used for? Colin Percival To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
