Re: diffing rpms

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On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 08:04:13PM -0500, Federico Lucifredi wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>  I am looking for a quick way to diff rpm *contents* (specifically, once
> I sign an rpm I want to double-check that the contents are the same as
> that of another rpm (the unsigned version). This is useful as part of a
> messed up build process :D
> 
>  Is there a smarter way to proceed than extracting the rpm payload and
> diffing the contents file by file ?

There is a sha1 checksum of the header and a md5 checksum of the
header plus payload of an rpm. Those don't change if you sign an
rpm.

regards,

Florian La Roche

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