[Aide] Call for testing: AIDE prelink support

[Hannes von Haugwitz]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 10:48:37AM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Nov 2022 at 10:25, John Horne <john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk> wrote:
> > My understanding though was that prelinking was now basically
> > deprecated.  We used to use it on CentOS 6 and partly with 7, but,
> > as far as I remember, the general advice was then not to use it (no
> > real advantage in using it). So we haven't used it since a year or
> > two after the patch. As far as I can tell it no longer exists with
> > RedHat 8 or 9. Although RedHat/CentOS 7 still has it, the O/S is in
> > maintenance mode, and, like us, I suspect people are upgrading those
> > servers within the next couple of years. So even if they are using
> > prelinking, it will only be for a relatively short while longer (and
> > I can't actually remember anyone else mentioning over the years that
> > they have a timeout/hang problem).
> >
> Yeah. I don't think any RHEL (or clone) since 7 has used it. Fedora dropped
> it about 6 to 8 years ago and I believe other operating systems did so also
> as it caused a lot of issues. EL7 ends support in 2024 and I don't think it
> would be useful to continue it.

Thanks for your replies. Then I'll completely remove the prelink code in
AIDE 0.18.

Best regards

Hannes