File conflicts, how do they work at that point?
Olivier Galibert
galibert at pobox.com
Tue Nov 20 19:17:02 UTC 2007
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...?
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