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Date:      Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:57:38 -0500
From:      Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange package checksum report
Message-ID:  <20150123215738.GT80181@numachi.com>
In-Reply-To: <21698.32224.747971.146491@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>
References:  <21698.32224.747971.146491@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>

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On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:59:12AM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> On some of my machines, I've been noticing the following in the
> nightly security mail:

The *.pyc are blobs of byte code that Python generates if the
interpreter chooses to compile a module.

Maybe the package erroneously contains them, and the interpreter
is regenerating them, according to whatever logic is would apply.
Maybe a timestamp issue?

When you do a force reinstall ,what are the timestamps as compared
to the corresponding python modules (*.pl)?



> 
> Checking for packages with mismatched checksums:
> p5-XML-SAX-0.99_2: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini
> python27-2.7.9: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/UserDict.pyc
> python27-2.7.9: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/_weakrefset.pyc
> python27-2.7.9: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/abc.pyc
> python27-2.7.9: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/codecs.pyc
> python27-2.7.9: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/copy_reg.pyc
> python27-2.7.9: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/encodings/__init__.pyc
> [ a bunch of other .pyc files elided ]
> 
> Does anyone know what causes this?  Force-reinstalling the package
> fixes it, but only temporarily -- by the time the next security mail
> comes, it's back in this state.
> 
> -GAWollman
> 
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-- 
Brian Reichert				<reichert@numachi.com>
BSD admin/developer at large	



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