On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Diego Iastrubni wrote:

> > you think it is time to start doing it?
> > IIRC from the stuff I read about it some time ago, it would be necessarily
> > to run prelink on each install of new libraries. In that case, a lot of
> > rpms would need to be adepted. Unless ofcourse, prelink is run at boot, or
> > in a cron-job, which also have their own problems.
> > WDYT ?
> >
> > d.
> rpm -va will shout.

-V. Indeed, but IIRC rpm is capable to unprelink first before computing 
checksums.

The problem would be 3rd-party sec tools that need to checksum files 
somehow. They would need to be patched the same way than rpm, but one has 
yet to identify them all.

> at rpm install time it can be a good idea...

this will change md5sums too.

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