[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#615111: aide: fails on large files

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 02:17:47PM -0500, Philippe Hebrais wrote:
> I have a few large backup files lying around (~5 Gigs each).  Aide reports
>    Value too large for defined data type
> in do_md().  I was able to exclude them and everything is fine... except
> it would have been nice to protect them as well..
> 
> Looks like some component needs recompiling for large file support.

This works for me. That's what I did on a squeeze system with i686
architecture:

create test file with dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=65536 count=40000
run aide
change test file by appending a few characters
run aide

Everything worked as expected.

Also, please explain the d-i tag.

Greetings
Marc

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