What is the ninth (9th) character or field in the output string of rpm -V ?
 

What is the ninth (9th) character or field in the output string of rpm -V ?

rpm version is 4.4.2, which came with Fedora core 5.

It is not explained in the man page of rpm.
For example:
$ rpm -V foobar
.M.....TC d /usr/share/doc/foobar/foobar_doc.txt

The ninth (9th) character is "C". What it stands for?

From the man page:
"
Otherwise, the (mnemonically emBoldened) character
denotes failure of the corresponding --verify test:

S file Size differs
M Mode differs (includes permissions and file type)
5 MD5 sum differs
D Device major/minor number mismatch
L readLink(2) path mismatch
U User ownership differs
G Group ownership differs
T mTime differs
",
but no explanation for the 9th field.

Tried quickly to look it up with Google and but didn't find anything usefull.
I know, someone will say: "Use the source luke!", but if someone would know straight it would save the trouble and hopefully also next time this question is found with Google.

well, while I was writing above I thought it surely is the bug in the rpm man page, so bugzilla.redhat.com would be also the right place to look.
And yep, there it was:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=202805

C stands for SE Linux security context not matching.
Thanks for playing.