On 07/05/2012 03:51 AM, John Doe wrote: > 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 No - the simple act of logging in did that - my vote is for prelink - git is probably unaware of prelink. > > JD > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos