On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 10:29, William Hooper wrote: > 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. > > -- > William Hooper Ah! Thanks for the explanation. I had run the -V and it did not report any problems as you said. But then I found the rpm command showing the same difference in size and began to wonder about this. Plus the fact that the RH8 systems I have apparently are not doing the prelink and they show the same size as I had expected. Call me paranoid! :) -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Is it clean in other dimensions?
