> 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)

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