On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 20:18 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, John Horne wrote:
> > [Apologies for cross-posting from the opensuse list]
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if someone could tell me why there is a difference in
> > the reported inode number of a file from the 'ls' command, and from the
> > 'rpm' command. For example, using the /usr/bin/wget file, I get:
> >
> > ls -i /usr/bin/wget
> > 365523 /usr/bin/wget
> >
> > rpm -qf --qf '[%{FILEINODES}:%{FILENAMES}\n]' /usr/bin/wget|
> > grep ':/usr/bin/wget$'
> > 157816006:/usr/bin/wget
> >
> > I realise that prelinking will cause the inode number to change, but
> > even without prelinking the numbers reported are not the same.
> >
> > Surely the rpm package manager database will report the inode number of
> > the installed file. Running 'rpm -Vf /usr/bin/wget' verifies the file as
> > okay, although as far as I am aware rpm verification does not include
> > testing the inode number.
>
> Hysterical as it is, the inode numbers in packages are from the host used
> to build the package so they'll never match what you have installed.
>
Hmm, so it seems! Even rebuilding a package and then installing it, the
inode numbers come up different. Thanks for the reply.
John.
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