build id computation

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:48:47PM +0100, Jan Blunck wrote:
> For rpm based distributions there is a tool called debugedit available in
> rpm. It was aimed to rewrite the paths in the line number program. Now it is
> also recomputing the build id because the line number program changes. I don't
> think that this is strictly necessary but I wanted to bring this up and
> discuss the way how the checksum is computed in general.

Why is it recomputing the build ID at all?  The checksum is an
implementation detail for selecting the build ID, it's not used to
verify the build ID later.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery