[Gllug] coreutils checksums

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 02:05:09PM +0100, Steve Parker wrote:
> I'm sure this is a really basic question, but here goes:
> I have multiple machines, each with OEL5.5 (effectively RHEL5.5 rebadged  
> by Oracle)
> Each machine has coreutils-5.97-23el5_6.4 installed, but md5sums of  
> /bin/cp, /bin/ls, etc are different on every machine.
>
> Doing an "od -c /bin/cp > node1.cp" and similarly for node2, diff  
> node1.cp node2.cp shows that there are genuine differences between the  
> binaries.
>
> They all have the same timestamp, file size, ldd output, etc
>
> Am I missing something obvious (I'm sure that I am!)

Almost certainly this will be the result of prelink having processed
those binaries.

Regards,
Daniel
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