Philip Prindeville wrote: >And "ls -l" shows the permissions and dates to be identical as >well (except for maybe seconds which aren't shown by "ls -l"). > > Bingo: # ls -l /etc/security/chroot.conf* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 Aug 1 05:18 /etc/security/chroot.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 Aug 1 05:18 /etc/security/chroot.conf.rpmnew # perl -e 'print join(", ", stat("/etc/security/chroot.conf")), "\n"' 64768, 721510, 33188, 1, 0, 0, 0, 82, 1154431139, 1154431139, 1156023232, 4096, 8 # perl -e 'print join(", ", stat("/etc/security/chroot.conf.rpmnew")), "\n"' 64768, 719917, 33188, 1, 0, 0, 0, 82, 1154431128, 1154431128, 1156023323, 4096, 8 # perl -e 'print scalar localtime((stat("/etc/security/chroot.conf.rpmnew"))[9]), "\n"' Tue Aug 1 05:18:48 2006 # perl -e 'print scalar localtime((stat("/etc/security/chroot.conf"))[9]), "\n"' Tue Aug 1 05:18:59 2006 # And there you have it. Why are the packages being generated with a few seconds jitter? -Philip