binaries grow overnight, but rpm -V does not catch the changes

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Wed Jul 13 20:01:35 UTC 2005


Marcin Struzak wrote:
[snip]
> I am suspecting prelink is the culprit (found entries for all of the
> above in /var/log/prelink.log), but that still does not explain why rpm
> -V is absolutely silent about the changes?

RPM is prelink aware.  IIRC it un-prelinks the binary and checks the
MD5SUM against the RPM database, but I could be remembering incorrectly.

-- 
William Hooper




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