[Spacewalk-list] Installed packages-contents checksums question

[Jonathan Hoser]

On 05/10/2012 09:27 AM, Michael Mraka wrote:
> % Yesterday I kickstarted 5 F16 boxes, and I would have expected the
> % contents of /lib64 to be bit-identical.
> % But a checksumming (md5, sha, sha256 - all tested to be sure) differed
> % for *each* file in /lib64 on *each* host.
> % Do you see that too? Is this to be expected?
> % If so - why?
>
> Yes, it's expected. The magic behind it is called 'prelink'. See
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelink
> Better way to verify whether you binaries and libraries are ok (i.e.
> they are the ones installed by rpm package) is
>   rpm -Vvf /lib64/libz.so
> on each of the systems.
>

Thanks a million Michael!

Btw:
If anyone sees Thunderbird Instant-Crashing on an up-to-patch Fedora 16
system,
its possible this is due to a non-running nscd-daemon.
When Thunderbird is trying to do the lookup without the caching-daemon,
there's a segfault somewhere.

Best
-Jonathan

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Institute of Bioinformatics and System Biology


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