[ale] md5sum weirdness on firefox

[jbayes at spoo.mminternet.com (Joe Bayes)]

timothy at meanor.net typeth:

>>>So first off, I discover that rpm --verify isn't giving any
>>>output: 
>[snip]
>
>That's actually good.  rpm --verify only produces output when one or
>more of the files in the rpm have changed in some way since install
>(md5sum, permissions, etc).

Oops. Okay, thanks. I read the line, "The  format  of  the  output  is
a  string of 8 characters" from the manpage, so when I didn't see 8
characters, I figured it was broken. 

>You could always edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux and set
>SELINUX=permissive so that it only logs warnings instead of enforcing
>the policies.

Yeah, well, I've thought about that. But that would feel like some
sort of surrender, some sort of moral failing on my part. Sort of like
the folks who just use root as their personal account. ;)

Joe
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