Re: [rpm-list] db version mismatch with a twist

[Kevin Cosgrove <kevinc doink com>]

On 14 November 2006 at 18:57, Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com> 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