Strange package checksum report

[Leif Pedersen]

I wonder if your computer's clock is off by a lot. Python might insist on
rebuilding .pyc files if their timestamps are in the future.



On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Brian Reichert <reichert at numachi.com>
wrote:

> 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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