File conflicts, how do they work at that point?

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 20:17 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 12:54:04PM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 18:11 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 05:33:49PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > > They do not exist for elf binaries, for other files, the files must be 
> > > > identical for both x86_64 and i386, my guess: smcs is a shell script?
> > > 
> > > Looks so.
> > > 
> > > So you can't check a repository for consistency without decompressing
> > > the payload in almost every rpm?
> > 
> > You can do it purely from the headers as the headers contain all of the
> > needed data.  See http://katzj.fedorapeople.org/multilib-cmp.py
> 
> Oh, I see, RPMTAG_FILECOLORS actually gives file types[1].  The RPM
> guys should lay off the quantum physics.  Thanks.
> 
>   OG.
> 
> [1] It's a bitmap?  What the...?

If you play the bitmap backward it says something about satan.
-sv