actual binary sizes and those reported by 'rpm'

Scott Talbot talbotscott at cox.net
Wed Sep 1 18:03:35 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 02:26, Andy Green wrote:
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> On Wednesday 01 September 2004 09:26, Ross Macintyre wrote:
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> > What's going on?
> > Can someone explain this discrepancy?
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> Prelink fiddles with your binaries once they are installed, on a cron job.  
> It's there to make them load faster.
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> - -Andy
	Not to mention that the files in an rpm are AFAIK bzipped
Scott

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