Re: endian access on RPM databases

[Rob van der Heij <rob rvdheij com>]

Aamer Akhter wrote:

> This is a bit of an odd question, but does endianness matter (ie will
> it break anything) wrt to the RPM database.
>
> I'm thinking about using RPM to manage packages for a cross-platform
> system, but linux (i386) and solaris (sparc) machines will be
> writing/using the same rpm database. Thru different binaries of
> course.
I  can 'rpm -qpl' the i386 rpm packages on s390 (which is big-endian). 
And I can install noarch packages as long as they fit the dependencies 
of my distribution.
Are you sure your RPM would be writing into the same database? After all 
the database is what you have installed on the system, and that will be 
only be packages for your own architecture?

Rob