Bug 117687 – Rescue boot needs prelink for rpm verify to work

Bug 117687 - Rescue boot needs prelink for rpm verify to work

Summary:	Rescue boot needs prelink for rpm verify to work

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jeremy Katz
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Reported:	2004-03-06 23:59 EST by Ben Smith
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:10 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-08-15 12:02:29 EDT
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Description Ben Smith 2004-03-06 23:59:21 EST

Description of problem:

When running rpm --verify from the 'rescue' boot option on the install
CD, rpm is confused by prelinked binaries (since prelink is not
available) and mistakenly reports them as modified.

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Boot from install cd
2.  Select 'linux rescue'
3.  Follow the instructions and mount your root partition.
4.  rpm -r /mnt/sysimage -Va
  
Actual results:

Prelinked binaries are reported as having changed size/md5sum.

Expected results:

RPM should detect prelinked binaries.

Additional info:

AFAICT, the prelink binary just needs to be added to the 'rescue'
image.  That should enable rpm to correctly detect prelinked binaries.

Comment 1 Ben Smith 2004-04-14 07:56:12 EDT

See also bug 106523

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2004-05-06 17:06:37 EDT

Added in CVS

Comment 3 Ben Smith 2004-06-19 19:26:22 EDT

Tested with FC2 and, while prelink is present, it also needs a 
couple of configuration files in order to work properly: 
 
/etc/prelink.conf <-- can be blank, but should be present 
/etc/rpm/macros.prelink <-- from the prelink package 
 
'/etc/rpm/macros.prelink' just needs to contain the following line: 
%__prelink_undo_cmd     /usr/sbin/prelink prelink -y library

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2004-10-07 14:03:29 EDT

Fixed in CVS

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