prelinking and mounting /usr read-only
William Hooper
whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 3 17:43:56 UTC 2004
Robert P. J. Day said:
>
> ok, only a few months behind the curve but i took a look at prelinking
> and, given that it actually modifies ELF shared and dynamically linked
> libs, my first concern would be that, technically, wouldn't those libs now
> fail an RPM verification test? after all, if they're no longer identical
> to the installed files, doesn't that constitute a verification failure?
No, because RPM is prelink aware. IIUC it uses something like the "--md5" prelink option (man prelink for info).
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William Hooper
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