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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] portage and prelinking
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:43:57
Message-Id: 200310112243.52073.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] portage and prelinking by Andrew Gaffney
1 On Saturday 11 October 2003 22:32, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
2 > If a binary has been prelinked, its MD5SUM and modification time changes,
3 > correct? When that package is uninstalled, does portage leave behind the
4 > binaries? Does it have a method for knowing that a binary has been
5 > prelinked?
6 >
7 Yes, portage has been prelink aware for some time now. It will use the prelink
8 tool to determine the md5sum of the original file instead of the current
9 file's md5sum.
10
11 > Also, is there a flag to portage that will remove all files installed by a
12 > package regardless of whether or not the file has been modified?
13
14 Not that I know of. This could also be dangerous.
15
16 Paul
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