On Thu, Sep 13, 2007, Karanbir Singh wrote: >Bill Campbell wrote: >>Unfortunately that isn't much use if you're running the default >>system with prelink as it changes large numbers of executables >>rendering the RPM verify close to useless. > >unless you are using a very old version of rpm, prelink is not a problem There are still a metric tonne of S.5... lines when doing ``rpm -V'' I just ran a script now that checks all packages on a fresh install of Centos 5, x86_64 with all updates applied. This should be pretty clean on a new install, but ``wc'' on the output returns ``45031 100197 2608718''. Over 45,000 lines of output is a bit much on a new system. Running ``fgrep S.5 filename | grep '/usr/bin/' | wc'' returns 446 files that fail verification in just the /usr/bin directory. This is on a system without prelink, and hasn't been up long enough for cron to have run it in any case. My guess is that it has something to do with the way CentOS handles 64 bit packaging. It appears that it's installing i386 and x86_64 versions of packages. ``rpm -qa | sort | uniq -c'' shows 337 packages with the duplicate names. Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much. -- Will Rogers