[CentOS] Strange alterations to vim and related packages on KVM host

[John Doe]

From: James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>

> Yesterday git status reported that the following files had changed
> since the previous commit:
> #       modified:   ../usr/bin/gdb
> #       modified:   ../usr/bin/gvim
> #       modified:   ../usr/bin/vim
> 
> #       modified:   ../etc/virsh.run
> #       modified:   .Xauthority
> #       modified:   .bash_history
> #       modified:   ../selinux/policy
> #       modified:   ../usr/bin/gdb
> #       modified:   ../usr/bin/gvim
> #       modified:   ../usr/bin/vim
> #
> When I check the differences git simply reports that the binary files
> are difference but, after I reinstalled them all yesterday I noted
> that the file modification times of the replaced files and their
> respective reinstalled files were the same but their file sizes were
> not.

Did you rpm verify?
# rpm -qV vim-enhanced
# rpm -qV gdb
Did you diff the text files?
Did you "binary diff" the binaries?
How many bytes difference? constant number?

JD