64-bit stat (or not) in 32-bit Fedora binaries

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Tue Feb 19 00:49:41 UTC 2013


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On 2/18/13 6:37 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Eric Sandeen writes:
> 
>> and it's not just weird obscure packages:
>>
>> # ./summarize-stat.pl `rpm -ql sendmail`
> 
> This is not accurate. -ql will also list directories, and summarize-stat.pl then proceeds to chew on every file in that directory.

True, but if the package with binaries owns a directory, odds are it owns the things in it, right?  In general I think only one package should own any given directory.  I guess it's not perfect.

I would not run it on the "filesystem" package ;)

For sendmail it does get a little confused by the prefs/alias symlinks I guess and "sees" some files that might be owned by i.e. postfix if it's installed.  Use your best judgement, etc.

- -Eric
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