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