Re: Strange package checksum report

2015-01-29 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > I assume that you're using official packages and don't have a locally > compiled Python interpreter or anything like that? We build our own package repositories. > Could you perhaps turn on auditing in order to find out what's touching > these files? Maybe. It will probably take a wh

Re: Strange package checksum report

2015-01-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Peter Jeremy writes: > If Python isn't going to use the .pyc files we ship (because it thinks > they are out of date), we might as well not ship them. It usually does. There is something strange going on there, and we don't have enough information (yet) to figure out what. DES -- Dag-Erling Sm

Re: Strange package checksum report

2015-01-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Garrett Wollman writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: > > These are Pyhon bytecode files. They are automatically regenerated if > > you have write access to them and Python thinks they are stale when it > > tries to load them. Apparently, Python's definition of "stale" is > > slightly more compl

Re: Strange package checksum report

2015-01-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2015-Jan-24 22:03:23 -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: >< said: >> These are Pyhon bytecode files. They are automatically regenerated if >> you have write access to them and Python thinks they are stale when it >> tries to load them. Apparently, Python's definition of "stale" is >> slightly more c

Re: Strange package checksum report

2015-01-24 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Garrett Wollman writes: >> Checking for packages with mismatched checksums: >> p5-XML-SAX-0.99_2: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini > This file is updated whenever you install or remove a SAX parser, so > this is expected. There are at least half a dozen differe

Re: Strange package checksum report

2015-01-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Garrett Wollman writes: > Checking for packages with mismatched checksums: > p5-XML-SAX-0.99_2: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini This file is updated whenever you install or remove a SAX parser, so this is expected. There are at least half a dozen different Perl SAX imple

Re: Strange package checksum report

2015-01-23 Thread 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 wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:59:12AM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > On some of my machines, I've been

Re: Strange package checksum report

2015-01-23 Thread Brian Reichert
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

Re: Strange package checksum report

2015-01-23 Thread Robert Sevat
Maybe hardware going bad? If you're using ZFS, it's probably not the hard disk since ZFS would correct it before pkg can notice it. (Unless you have no redundancy, but then you'd still see checksum errors in zpool status) Maybe bad memory that causes corruption? Kind Regards, Robert Sevat On 01

Strange package checksum report

2015-01-23 Thread Garrett Wollman
On some of my machines, I've been noticing the following in the nightly security mail: 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/p