[Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?

[Scott Silva]

on 8-20-2008 2:47 PM Kenneth Porter spake the following:
> --On Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:35 AM -0400 Blake Carver 
> <lists at 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.
But a rpm install will not overwrite the tarball install since tarball 
installs usually go to /usr/local or under /opt while rpm installs will go 
into /usr directly. I don't know if the tarball has a make uninstall command, 
but the previous admin "should" have left the unpacked source around from the 
install somewhere in either /root or in his home directory. That can give more 
clues.

> 
>> ........ 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.
> 


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