Bug 127728

Summary: RPM needs to byteswap data from "cross endian" database
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mark Hatle <mhatle>
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Mark Hatle 2004-07-12 23:15:31 UTC 
Description of problem:
If the RPM database was created on the opposite endian (compared to native) a number of 
components are unreadable.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
All < rpm development HEAD

How reproducible:
Create a DB on a big endian system.  Copy to little endian, run rpm -qf '[:xml:]' compare 
the output on both.  It's different.
  
Additional info:

The patch currently located in the rpm CVS head works properly.
Comment 1 Mark Hatle 2004-07-12 23:19:20 UTC 
Created attachment 101841 [details]
back port of endian patch

Backport of the endian patch from head to 4.3.x.
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2005-02-07 20:48:54 UTC 
Fixed in rpm-4.4.1-0.18.