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

John Doe jdmls at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 4 15:51:45 UTC 2012


From: fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

> On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 07:53:09AM -0700, John Doe wrote:
>>  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?
> 
> prelink???

I do not think prelink would alter text configuration files like .Xauthority or .bash_history

JD




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