On 14 November 2006 at 18:57, Jeff Johnson <n3npq.jbj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Um, no. > > I have personally read big-endian databases on little-endian i386 > and vice versa. > > I know of no issues wrto endianness and an entire rpmdb. > > What I said is that mixing endianness in the same database has > not been tested. > > FYI, Berkeley DB supports mixed endian-ness, or at least appears > to (I have not checked whether the attribute is per insert or > per-database, likely per-database). > > The only hard part about attempting to support mixed endian > records in rpm is deciding which endianness to choose when > installing, say, a noarch package, or, say, installing an > other-endian package for execution with a wrong-endian emulator. Ooops. I hate it when I misunderstand something, and then quote it per my misunderstanding. My bad... -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
