On 01/22/2010 01:53 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 01/22/2010 01:22 PM, Tomas Mraz wrote: >> On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 12:41 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On FC12 I found this: >>> >>> # ls /usr/bin/.*.hmac >>> /usr/bin/.fipscheck.hmac >>> /usr/bin/.ssh.hmac >>> >>> # rpm -qf /usr/bin/.*.hmac >>> fipscheck-1.2.0-4.fc12.x86_64 >>> openssh-clients-5.2p1-31.fc12.x86_64 >>> >>> Could somebody provide some insight what these files are (I guess some >>> checksums) and why they are being installed to /usr/bin? >> >> These are checksums required by FIPS-140-2 integrity verification checks >> of the fipscheck and ssh binaries. > > I.e. package data. > > => These packages are non-FHS compliant and qualify as broken. I think what Ralf means is - these files should be put somewhere else, and - these files should not be hidden files to which I agree 100%. So the question is: how much work is required ? Speaking on funny things in /usr/bin what about '/usr/bin/[', part of cureutils... had never noticed this one before. -denis -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
