> In my case it's because I'm comparing two machines. I'm going to > check to size of /usr/local on both and compare them to see if > someone has been compiling from source (and hence not registering > stuff with rpm). I know that the disk usage is likely to be the > same, but isn't guaranteed to be while the real (or apparent I > guess) file sizes will be the same if the files are the same. > > Before someone suggests MD5 let me say that it's not that important, > but it is important enough to check sizes. We're not looking for > hackers, just misguided developers.
Won't this also produce a "false positive" result if someone recompiles from the SRPM, particularly if they use different options in the compile? (i.e. rpmbuild --target athlon, or a difference in /etc/rpmrc) ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
