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

[Rob Kampen]

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
>
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