Andy Green wrote: > On 01/07/11 15:29, Somebody in the thread at some point said: > >>> Maybe it means the stuff in the f12 tarball is broken but I am not sure >>> you proved that yet. You just show that the version in the f12 tarball >>> has different size (so naturally different md5sum). The breakage could >>> still be in some other library from the tarball environment. >> >> That seems unlikely, because with everything else remaining the same, a >> new coreutils package (from F13 repository) fixes it. And coreutils >> doesn't bring any libs with it, from what I can see. So since the new, >> working coreutils links against all the same libraries it doesn't bring >> with it, that indicates that the coreutils in the rootfs tar ball is at >> fault here. Or am I missing something? > > Correct me if I am wrong but you mention that for the first time now :-) It is not at all unlikely that I unintentionally ommited some of these important details. :-/ > In any event I cannot reproduce your problem just by bringing over > sha512sum from the rootfs tarball: > > 1) download > > http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/fedora/rootfs/rootfs-f12.tar.bz2 > > 2) untar, scp rootfs-f12/usr/bin/sha512sum <mybox>:/tmp > > 3) On mybox, > > [root@ivmon ~]# /tmp/sha512sum /tmp/z > 1f1e6f098e99bb0ab52c3142f0fb545b00470d267823d44fd609fdaae1a6f45fb437de931fa16bbb4a702c0cba7abb9954b737ff4edb30f16ae39a2c67ee6bb7 > /tmp/z > > ie, the same result as > > [root@ivmon ~]# sha512sum /tmp/z > 1f1e6f098e99bb0ab52c3142f0fb545b00470d267823d44fd609fdaae1a6f45fb437de931fa16bbb4a702c0cba7abb9954b737ff4edb30f16ae39a2c67ee6bb7 > /tmp/z OK, that IS weird, because I can! [root@sheeva /usr/src/arm/rootfs-f12]# usr/bin/sha512sum /bin/bash 8b7116b3000e68623d6182b5d8f4f72a3189b7c0019eea036bf8aa41248198e1fc631d9e6709458d5d4eeb4790613964a53610713701d7e7fc4651e26dbd4615 /bin/bash [root@sheeva /usr/src/arm/rootfs-f12]# sha512sum /bin/bash c3a60b82648493a99f39aa229810cb03c1ef9cb842bf3f69cb093005b95c6c5b4cbf3f92d9c679bca560c0fa280e54cbe789cf8f89f6e4e4522ca0bbf7658610 /bin/bash [root@sheeva /usr/src/arm/rootfs-f12]# The results are definitely different when using the sha512sum from the tar ball. (/usr/src/arm/rootfs-f12 is a fresh, pristine tarball extract) Where are our methods diverging? Gordan _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm