File conflicts, how do they work at that point?

[Jeremy Katz]

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

Jeremy