From: fred smith <fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 07:53:09AM -0700, John Doe wrote:
>> From: James B. Byrne <byrnejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Yesterday git status reported that the following files had changed
>> > since the previous commit:
>> > # modified: ../usr/bin/gdb
>> > # modified: ../usr/bin/gvim
>> > # modified: ../usr/bin/vim
>> >
>> > # modified: ../etc/virsh.run
>> > # modified: .Xauthority
>> > # modified: .bash_history
>> > # modified: ../selinux/policy
>> > # modified: ../usr/bin/gdb
>> > # modified: ../usr/bin/gvim
>> > # modified: ../usr/bin/vim
>> > #
>> > When I check the differences git simply reports that the binary files
>> > are difference but, after I reinstalled them all yesterday I noted
>> > that the file modification times of the replaced files and their
>> > respective reinstalled files were the same but their file sizes were
>> > not.
>>
>> Did you rpm verify?
>> # rpm -qV vim-enhanced
>> # rpm -qV gdb
>> Did you diff the text files?
>> Did you "binary diff" the binaries?
>> How many bytes difference? constant number?
>
> prelink???
I do not think prelink would alter text configuration files like .Xauthority or .bash_history
JD
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