Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 100520
RFE: Allow RPM to prelink w/ --prelink (or what-not)...
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:06:56 EST
Description of problem: Provide the ability for RPM to prelink a binary with some sensible options on rpm -i --prelink (or something). And make sure that's maintainable so up2date and other such programs will keep default prelink options too. The RPM DB would also maintain the md5 or sha1 post-prelink for integrity checking as normal. Finally when the option is in use RPM would warn that in-memory versions of the program will end up w/ multiple copies (which I guess would happen on upgrades ~anyway~).
Moved to RHEL as a RFE there.
Ability to call prelink automatically and track checksum changes resulting from prelink would be very useful.
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