[fedora-arm] Include prelink in fedora arm?
Gordan Bobic
gordan at bobich.net
Thu Sep 8 09:28:52 UTC 2011
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 18:09:34 +0200, Jan Kratochvil
<jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:10:14 +0200, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> Prelinking will change the binaries every time it is run
>
> No. Please read /etc/sysconfig/prelink and
> PRELINK_FULL_TIME_INTERVAL, only
> once per two weeks.
I meant every time prelink is run, not every time the binary is run.
>> I just thought of another reason to not use prelink - incremental
>> backups.
>
> [...]
>> thus triggering an unnecessarily large backup.
>
> This is again a bug in your backup tool. I backup by duplicity with:
>
> # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666143
> touch /var/lib/prelink/force && time /etc/cron.daily/prelink
> time rpm -Vva 2>/dev/null|perl -ne 's/^[.]{7}[.T][.] . // or
> next;chomp;print "- $_\n" if -f;' >$RPMSAFE
> [...]
> --exclude-filelist $RPMSAFE \
You are missing the main point - how much extra CPU and disk I/O is
that going to take during the backup?
Gordan
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