Re: endian access on RPM databases

[Aamer Akhter <aakhter gmail com>]

On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 15:32:01 +0200, Rob van der Heij <rob@rvdheij.com> wrote:
> 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?

yes. the rpm database is actually on a network mount, which is shared
by both i386-linux and sparc-solaris machines. most of the rpm's are
going to be of the noarch type so installation/use of the packages
isn't really the issue.

> After all
> the database is what you have installed on the system, and that will be
> only be packages for your own architecture?

i think that's where the confusion is coming from. the database will
not necessarily be on a local mount.


> 
> Rob
> 
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