--On Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:35 AM -0400 Blake Carver lists@lisnews.com wrote:
I guess I'm not quite sure how to interpret this to help me figure out my problem, there are changes rpm reports, does this mean that an RPM was installed but so was a source package?
rpm -V -v dovecot ........ c /etc/dovecot.conf
This is a config file, as denoted by the "c". The row of dots means the file is pristine (hasn't been modified since it was installed).
S.5....T c /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot
This config file is different from the package. I don't recall what all the flags mean but the "5" means an MD5 checksum mismatch. As a rule, initscripts shouldn't be modified unless you're doing something tricky, so this was likely replaced from a tarball install.
prelink: /usr/libexec/dovecot/dict: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?..... /usr/libexec/dovecot/dict prelink: /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?..... /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth
All of these prelink errors suggest that your binaries were overwritten from a tarball installation. The easy fix is to erase ("rpm -e") the package and re-install it, likely upgrading to a newer package at the same time.
........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/REDHAT-FAQ.txt
"d" files are documentation, and if you're tight on disk space, you can suppress installation of documentation when the package is installed.