[fedora-arm] Include prelink in fedora arm?

Gordan Bobic gordan at bobich.net
Tue Sep 6 18:48:44 UTC 2011


On 09/06/2011 06:24 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:06:13 +0200, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> I can think of a lot of reasons to avoid prelink (tripwire and vserver
>> hashify are two things that immediately come to mind).
>
> Any programs verifying executables should run prelink -y (or -u) on the
> executable to restore its original state first.
>
> It is a bug of those programs tripwire and vserver which should be fixed.

I beg to differ. But regardless, care to add up what that will do to the 
life expectancy of your built in flash that the OS runs from on any of 
the commonly used ARM devices (SheevaPlug, AC100, Genesi Efika)?

Gordan


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