Re: Odd results comparing installed files with rpm package information

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• Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:29:59 -0400 (EDT)
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Scot L. Harris said:

> I believe the second column contains the files size as recorded in the
> rpm database.  However in the above example the file size reported in the
> rpm database for /usr/bin/vim is 2071700.  The ls -l reports 2077400.

The file on your hard drive has been prelinked, so it's MD5SUM (and I guess size) can be different than reported in the RPM database.  If you use "rpm -V", it has the logic to take this into account and report if a file has changed.

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