RPM

Comment 1 for bug 651496

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In , Bryan (bryan-redhat-bugs) wrote :

Created attachment 323985
Proposed patch adapted from upstream (only the line numbers changed).

Description of problem:

    Running "rpm -Va" on a freshly-installed x86_64 system reports
    thousands of files with mtimes that differ from the original
    package. This pretty much makes rpm verification useless.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

    rpm-4.4.2.3-7.el5

How reproducible:

    Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:

    1. Install new x86_64 system.
    2. run "rpm -Va"

Actual results:

    Many files differ from the ones in the RPM package. Most of them
    differ only in their mtime and are the ones that belong to
    multiarch packages.

Expected results:

    "rpm -Va" should list only the files that have actually changed

Additional info:

This is one of the complaints put forth in Bug 426672. This has also
been addressed in upstream rpm:

http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commit;h=9646a117c916022067fd07e4f6a7e25c5c9814de