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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 22:21:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2000734.nCq92NXiV5@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31e62374dbdcf57fd50f6eddb11b88bd@parizet.com>

On Tuesday 17 May 2011 17:57:42 Blakawk wrote:

>  As far as i remember, i don't see why modification times will enter in
>  the md5sum computation process, as they are not part of the file but of
>  the filesystem's inode... it's definitely possible to compare two
>  binaries on two different system if they are compiled with the same
>  compiler version and libraries 

in theory. In practice only a slight change here and there - might result in 
huge changes. 'Almost identical' but the things that are not identical will 
screw you up. Almost identical is like 'totally different' in this case.

Instead wasting time comparing the machines, he should find the culprit for 
the segfault. KDE's backtracking tool (drkonqi) and strace help a lot with 
that. If he knows where it fails, he at least has a chance to find out why.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-17 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-17 13:42 [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help Helmut Jarausch
2011-05-17 14:52 ` Paul Hartman
2011-05-17 16:28   ` Leonardo Guilherme
2011-05-17 15:03 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-05-17 15:52 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-05-17 15:57   ` Blakawk
2011-05-17 20:21     ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2011-05-19  9:23       ` Helmut Jarausch
2011-05-17 17:52   ` Stroller
2011-05-17 16:05 ` [gentoo-user] " James

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