On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:41:39AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
I thought verify was supposed to check every file in the package?
From the spec file:
%verify(not md5 size mtime) %config(noreplace) /etc/exports
rpm has been explicitly told to *not* check certain traits.
Ah, very cool, thanks. Any pointers to why one would do this?
Verifying against a stock /etc/bashrc is useful, since it influences system behavior. Verifying against a stock /etc/exports is not, beyond who owns the file and what permissions it has.
Thanks Ignacio. I guess that makes sense, for certain values of 'verify'.
I'm trying to use this for backup though, so I really _want_ to know if the md5sum has changed. Anyone know of some kind of undocumented --forcefiles option to rpm -V, or am I going to by rolling it myself via --dump?
Cheers, Gavin