On Saturday 14 June 2008 16.44:57 Bernhard Rosenkränzer wrote:
> In the particular case of apt, there's another thing I just noticed -- both
> rpm and apt come with an internalized version of lua.
> Chances are the simple symbol clash caused by this is what causes the
> crash. Guess switching both over to using system lua (or at least making
> apt use rpm's version) is the best fix.

That did it -- if anyone is interested, here's a patch to link apt against 
system lua 5.1.x, that makes it work with rpm5 if the latter is compiled with 
external lua as well.

It doesn't fix genpkglist crashing though, so that must be a different 
problem.

ttyl
bero