pr4886: build-id enforcement

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Elena,

On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 17:50 -0400, Elena Zannoni wrote:
> > It seems that Wenji's pr4886 code is failing on fedora due to probable
> > elfutils and/or kernel build bugs.  Shall we disable these tests until
> > the tools/builds are fixed?  Even a mistaken warning message is
> > probably too much to punish fedora users with.  For now, how about
> > just sending out a printk and continuing, in case of a mismatch?
>
> What is the ETA for a fix of the broken tools and builds? Where is the 
> real problem? Do you have more details?

I don't have much details. I did revert the patch locally though since
it does indeed seem to break things on fedora 9/rawhide (x86/x86_64) for
me. This is the bug to watch: "kernel build-id note corruption"
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465873

Cheers,

Mark