tool to compare/check rpm binaries
Warren Togami
warren at togami.com
Sun Mar 28 20:12:50 UTC 2004
Charles R. Anderson wrote:
> I've made a simple tool to check for differences in two rpm binary
> packages. The script check for diffs in:
>
> Provides
> Requires
> ldd output
> nm output (minus addresses)
> diff -r on unpacked tree
>
> I've run it against the openssl builds in:
>
> http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1395
>
> For 7.x, the diffs are reasonable (Provides on %{name} differs due to
> differing release numbers, Requires adds ld-linux.so.2, binary files
> differ). However, for all the 8.0 builds, the symbol tables (nm
> output) differ non-trivally. Is this something we should be concerned
> about?
>
Neat! Would your tool be something we should include in the next
fedora-rpmdevtools?
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1175
If so, please submit it here and push for inclusion.
Warren
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