> > > Now, with this out of the way, forgive me for digging a little deeper: the > > > change is due to a limitation on rpm, right? Couldn't we just fix rpm? > > > > yum/apt/up2date. All three of them. > > Not apt, I have quite often switched arch with apt. As have I - remember all the nptl problems people saw in rhl9-era? A fair number of those were apt switching from glibc.i686 to glibc.i386 midstream. iirc, panu included an option into apt to protect from that happening. -sv
