On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Jeff Dickey wrote:

> Yes, but "very small changes" are the leading cause of project failures in
> my experience dealing with software.  People almost always test the
> flagrantly obvious big changes - but I know of a missile-defence test that
> wrote off a $200-million-plus launch vehicle for what turned out to be a
> single typo in a single line of code - on a project with far tighter formal
> validation and verification procedures than I have seen in any civilian
> software project.  Saying something is "too small to be tested" is the same
> thing as saying "it doesn't matter" - and reviewers and corporate evaluators
> will pick up on that attitude, and go elsewhere.

Resigning packages does not change the underlying package in any way (save
for wherever the checksum and signature is stored within the rpm file.
Run diff on two rpm files that differ only in signature used, and this
will be apparent.  No code that runs is changed.


Levi Ramsey
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