Weird issue using rpm -qaV

McGregor, Simon Simon.McGregor at bg-group.com
Fri Jan 22 04:15:53 UTC 2010


Running a rpm -qaV with root privilege I found that it changes the
following settings and more:
rpm package version rpm-4.4.2.3-18.el5

This output is generated from aide 

It would seem kind of weird that an rpm query to check for package
changes should modify the directory timestamps.
The result is my aide output prints a lot of noise. Anyone got some
hints on whats going on and why?


File: /var/log/rpmpkgs
  Inode    : 65568                            , 65572

Directory: /usr/sbin
  Mtime    : 2010-01-21 07:34:24              , 2010-01-22 07:34:24
  Ctime    : 2010-01-21 07:34:24              , 2010-01-22 07:34:24

Directory: /usr/lib
  Mtime    : 2010-01-21 07:34:14              , 2010-01-22 07:34:14
  Ctime    : 2010-01-21 07:34:14              , 2010-01-22 07:34:14

Directory: /usr/lib/pm-utils/bin
  Mtime    : 2010-01-21 07:34:24              , 2010-01-22 07:34:23
  Ctime    : 2010-01-21 07:34:24              , 2010-01-22 07:34:23

Directory: /usr/lib/syslinux
  Mtime    : 2010-01-21 07:33:11              , 2010-01-22 07:33:10
  Ctime    : 2010-01-21 07:33:11              , 2010-01-22 07:33:10

Directory: /usr/lib/nss/unsupported-tools
  Mtime    : 2010-01-21 07:30:09              , 2010-01-22 07:30:10
  Ctime    : 2010-01-21 07:30:09              , 2010-01-22 07:30:10

Directory: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.12
  Mtime    : 2010-01-21 07:30:35              , 2010-01-22 07:30:35
  Ctime    : 2010-01-21 07:30:35              , 2010-01-22 07:30:35

Directory: /usr/lib/rpm
  Mtime    : 2010-01-21 07:31:41              , 2010-01-22 07:31:42
  Ctime    : 2010-01-21 07:31:41              , 2010-01-22 07:31:42

Directory: /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9
  Mtime    : 2010-01-21 07:34:34              , 2010-01-22 07:34:34
  Ctime    : 2010-01-21 07:34:34              , 2010-01-22 07:34:34

Directory: /usr/lib/cups/backend
  Mtime    : 2010-01-21 07:30:33              , 2010-01-22 07:30:34
  Ctime    : 2010-01-21 07:30:33              , 2010-01-22 07:30:34

Directory: /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper
  Mtime    : 2010-01-21 07:33:23              , 2010-01-22 07:33:23
  Ctime    : 2010-01-21 07:33:23              , 2010-01-22 07:33:23

Directory: /usr/bin
  Mtime    : 2010-01-21 07:34:38              , 2010-01-22 07:34:38
  Ctime    : 2010-01-21 07:34:38              , 2010-01-22 07:34:38
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