Re: [CentOS] Update update failed on filesystem-2.4.0-3.el5.x86_64

2010-07-01 Thread Bond Masuda
I believe the filesystem RPM basically owns all the main directories on the system. One of them being /media. I suspect you have something mounted on /media, and since installing filesystem will try to create /media, that results in an error it wasn't expecting. can you umount /media and try

Re: [CentOS] How can binaries be different when package versions are identical? (mkfs.ext3 on CentOS 5.4)

2010-06-30 Thread Bond Masuda
i think you'll need to re-read the man pages on prelink. specifically, the -y or --md5 or --sha options. that is essentially what rpm -V does, it does an undo of the prelink to verify the original binary file's hash; which will be the same for the same version of software from the same package.