On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:01:34 -0500, Jon <jdisnard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > AIDE is one good example of software that is hurt by prelink. > > The prelinking feature can interfere with AIDE because it changes > binaries in an attempt to decrease startup time. > In other words prelink causes false positives. > > So I'm surprised to read that in rhel6 prelink is required by aide. > > Regardless, I suppose having the latest version is desirable for > those > looking to speed startup times. > Or perhaps just compile dependencies. Compiling dependencies I can understand, but I am not at all convinced about the start-up time benefits. I haven't seen any conclusive, objective and consistent evidence of it yet, and I can think of a lot of reasons to avoid prelink (tripwire and vserver hashify are two things that immediately come to mind). Gordan _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
