Bug 126287
| Summary: | rpm -V will sometimes flag size difference when --nomd5 is used but not without --nomd5 option | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Bret Hughes <bhughes> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | athlon | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-06-19 04:46:18 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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# rpm -V passwd ethereal # rpm -V --nomd5 passwd ethereal S........ /usr/bin/passwd S........ /usr/lib/libethereal.0.0.1 S........ /usr/lib/libwiretap.so.0.0.1 S........ /usr/sbin/editcap S........ /usr/sbin/mergecap S........ /usr/sbin/tethereal S........ /usr/sbin/text2pcap Yup. all those files are prelinked, and there are different means to get the file size depending on whether --nomd5 was specified or not. When computing the MD5 digest, the size is the number of bytes written from the pipe to prelink --undo, while with --nomd5, the size is what is actually on the file system (which has been modified by prelinking the file) # ls -al /usr/bin/passwd -r-s--x--x 1 root root 92757 Feb 15 13:04 /usr/bin/passwd # prelink -u /usr/bin/passwd # ls -al /usr/bin/passwd -r-s--x--x 1 root root 89273 Feb 15 13:04 /usr/bin/passwd # rpm -V passwd # rpm -V --nomd5 passwd # It's not at all clear what the fix is, the behavior using the prelink -u helper is the expected behavior, --nomd5 is the surprising behavior (but is actually accurate, check with ls). Alternatively, disable the size check if/when using --nomd5. # rpm -V --nomd5 passwd S........ /usr/bin/passwd # rpm -V --nomd5 --nosize passwd # |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.8 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030212 Description of problem: rpm appears to incorrectly indicate a file size difference on some files if used with the --nomd5 option. I have tried this on two seperate machines running fedora core 1 both running athlon kernels on duron processors. It appears to only happen on some packages passwd and kernel-pcmcia-cs are two off the top of my head ethereal is a third Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.2.1-0.30 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run rpm -V kernel-pcmcia-cs 2.run rpm -V --nomd5 kernel-pcmcia-cs 3.compare outputs of two commands Actual Results: sizes flagged as different in --nomd5 version Expected Results: same files found by each version Additional info: passwd example : # rpm -V passwd # rpm -V --nomd5 passwd S....... /usr/bin/passwd # kernel-pcmcia-cs # rpm -V kernel-pcmcia-cs S.5....T c /etc/pcmcia/config.opts S.5....T c /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia # rpm -V --nomd5 kernel-pcmcia-cs S......T c /etc/pcmcia/config.opts S......T c /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia S....... /sbin/cardctl S....... /sbin/cardmgr S....... /sbin/dump_cis S....... /sbin/ftl_check S....... /sbin/ftl_format S....... /sbin/ide_info S....... /sbin/ifport S....... /sbin/ifuser S....... /sbin/lspnp S....... /sbin/pack_cis S....... /sbin/probe S....... /sbin/scsi_info ethereal: # rpm -V ethereal # rpm -V --nomd5 ethereal S....... /usr/lib/libethereal.so.0.0.1 S....... /usr/lib/libwiretap.so.0.0.1 S....... /usr/sbin/editcap S....... /usr/sbin/mergecap S....... /usr/sbin/tethereal S....... /usr/sbin/text2pcap # some info on the machine: # cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow) # uname -a Linux mensroom_580_king_toronto 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl #1 Wed Apr 21 20:36:05 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux # mount /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)