Re: Bug#XXXXXX: (far too many packages) needs rebuilt for prelinking
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 05:19:43PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote:
> Think you could stop breaking threads? There are any number of mailers
> which set References and In-Reply-To headers properly.
>
> On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 16:57, Jack Howarth wrote:
> > Without this patch, binutils produced binaries that could be
> > not be unprelinked into identical binaries since there was
> > an unpredictablity in how *r_offset was calculated. With that
> > patch it was always set to zero allowing unprelinked binaries
> > to be identical to the original copies. However this is more
> > of a minor nit (things like tripwire will get unhappy but
> > the older binaries run fine prelinked).
>
> Maybe I'm not understanding what prelinking does, but how is it that a
> binary is being prelinked if the resulting binary is exactly the same as
> the original?
You missed an _un_. Prelink has a reversion mode that can be used with
rpm --verify, debsums (when debsums supports it), etc; it undoes the
relocation changes and you make sure you got the right library back.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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