Robert P. J. Day said: > > ok, only a few months behind the curve but i took a look at prelinking > and, given that it actually modifies ELF shared and dynamically linked > libs, my first concern would be that, technically, wouldn't those libs now > fail an RPM verification test? after all, if they're no longer identical > to the installed files, doesn't that constitute a verification failure? No, because RPM is prelink aware. IIUC it uses something like the "--md5" prelink option (man prelink for info). -- William Hooper