> > Now, with this out of the way, forgive me for digging a
little deeper: the
> > change is due to a limitation on rpm, right? Couldn't we just fix rpm?
>
> yum/apt/up2date. All three of them.
Not apt, I have quite often switched arch with apt.
As have I - remember all the nptl problems people saw in rhl9-era? A
fair number of those were apt switching from glibc.i686 to glibc.i386
midstream.
iirc, panu included an option into apt to protect from that happening.
-sv