On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 04:24:39PM -0500, James Ralston wrote: > On 2003-04-04 at 11:34:35-0500 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > man prelink > > I will eventually write more documentation. > > One question... > > If prelink modifies the actual binaries and libraries in-place (which > seems to be the case from my reading of the man page), doesn't that > essentially make "rpm --verify" useless? Every single binary and > library modified by prelink will fail the size/md5sum/mtime tests. It will not fail. rpm when --verify will prelink --verify, which is essentially --undo followed by prelinking again and comparing. > Even if --undo is used to revert the prelinking, "rpm --verify" would > still fail (unless prelink restored the exact mtimes that were on the > files before it started, that is)... prelink does not modify mtimes of prelinked libraries/binaries. Jakub
