Re: Fedora 11 Mass Rebuilds

[Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>]

Panu Matilainen wrote:
> We take compatibility dead seriously, but there are very real limits to
> what can be done compatibly and what can be be reasonably backported, if
> possible at all. The strong hash support might be within possibilities but
> already in rpm 4.6.0 the large package support is something that is
> *impossible* to backport due to the required API/ABI changes.

Can't you lie about the size, reporting it as MAX_UINT or something like
that if the old API is used? That's how Window$ did large file support.

        Kevin Kofler