On Apr 26, 2005, at 03:47 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
I was wondering if anyone is aware of any issues regarding reading/using /var/lib/rpm/* db files on a big endian machine (e.g. PPC) that were generated on an ix86 host? A simple "rpm -qa" run on the PPC lists off about 25 packages and then fails with:
memory alloc (260046852 bytes) returned NULL.
I'm not sure about big endian vs. little endian, but i386-generated /var/lib/rpm/* db files don't seem to work on armv5tel (neither cross-compiled nor native-compiled) with MontaVista Linux. MontaVista support couldn't even get a cross-compiled RPM to properly run on armv5tel; I had to patch, build, and creative native RPM RPMs for armv5tel. :(
Does this answer your question? Probably not. Does it hint that RPM databases are occasionally wonky when jumping architectures? Yup. :)
/Sean/
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