On Saturday 11 October 2003 21:34, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Tom Wesley wrote: > > On Saturday 11 October 2003 21:26, Andrew Gaffney wrote: <snip> > >>I've run into a problem. Binaries that have been prelinked no longer > >> match the recorded MD5SUM or modification time. How does portage deal > >> with this, or does it? > > > > Oddly enough I had thought the same when all my binaries showed as > > changed. I think that portage is unable to deal with this, you prelink > > after portage has installed and forgotten about the files... I'm > > thinking it would be better to use tripwire or such if you need to create > > a 'snapshot' of how the system looks... > > I could do that, but I want to contribute something back to Gentoo. It'd be > nice to have something that uses portage instead of its own database of > file sizes, mtimes, and MD5's. Also, I don't like starting projects and not > finishing them :)
Fair enough :-) I'm certainly no expert, but you might find it useful to read qpkg itself, it's a bash script, so could contain some useful information. -- Tom Wesley
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