diff --git a/crates/turborepo-lib/src/engine/builder.rs b/crates/turborepo-lib/src/engine/builder.rs
index 07e3fb673187f..cbf51e09666b8 100644
--- a/crates/turborepo-lib/src/engine/builder.rs
+++ b/crates/turborepo-lib/src/engine/builder.rs
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ mod test {
             unreachable!()
         }
 
-        fn global_change_key(&self) -> Vec<u8> {
+        fn global_change(&self, _other: &dyn Lockfile) -> bool {
             unreachable!()
         }
     }
diff --git a/crates/turborepo-lib/src/package_graph/mod.rs b/crates/turborepo-lib/src/package_graph/mod.rs
index bca4803b8dcfc..b32a30ced0783 100644
--- a/crates/turborepo-lib/src/package_graph/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/turborepo-lib/src/package_graph/mod.rs
@@ -326,10 +326,7 @@ impl PackageGraph {
 
         let closures = turborepo_lockfiles::all_transitive_closures(previous, external_deps)?;
 
-        let current_key = current.global_change_key();
-        let previous_key = previous.global_change_key();
-
-        let global_change = current_key != previous_key;
+        let global_change = current.global_change(previous);
 
         let changed = if global_change {
             None
@@ -548,8 +545,8 @@ mod test {
             unreachable!("lockfile encoding not necessary for package graph construction")
         }
 
-        fn global_change_key(&self) -> Vec<u8> {
-            unreachable!()
+        fn global_change(&self, _other: &dyn Lockfile) -> bool {
+            unreachable!("global change detection not necessary for package graph construction")
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/berry/mod.rs b/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/berry/mod.rs
index 514655265f3d3..c1d28377230ad 100644
--- a/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/berry/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/berry/mod.rs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ mod resolution;
 mod ser;
 
 use std::{
+    any::Any,
     collections::{HashMap, HashSet},
     iter,
 };
@@ -13,7 +14,6 @@ use de::SemverString;
 use identifiers::{Descriptor, Locator};
 use protocol_resolver::DescriptorResolver;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
-use serde_json::json;
 use thiserror::Error;
 use turbopath::RelativeUnixPathBuf;
 
@@ -548,19 +548,14 @@ impl Lockfile for BerryLockfile {
         Ok(patches)
     }
 
-    fn global_change_key(&self) -> Vec<u8> {
-        let mut buf = vec![b'b', b'e', b'r', b'r', b'y', 0];
-
-        serde_json::to_writer(
-            &mut buf,
-            &json!({
-                "version": &self.data.metadata.version,
-                "cache_key": &self.data.metadata.cache_key,
-            }),
-        )
-        .expect("writing to Vec cannot fail");
-
-        buf
+    fn global_change(&self, other: &dyn Lockfile) -> bool {
+        let any_other = other as &dyn Any;
+        if let Some(other) = any_other.downcast_ref::<Self>() {
+            self.data.metadata.version != other.data.metadata.version
+                || self.data.metadata.cache_key != other.data.metadata.cache_key
+        } else {
+            true
+        }
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/bun/mod.rs b/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/bun/mod.rs
index e7624b34f2f0c..5f46ada7cde32 100644
--- a/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/bun/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/bun/mod.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use std::str::FromStr;
+use std::{any::Any, str::FromStr};
 
 use serde::Deserialize;
 
@@ -109,8 +109,11 @@ impl Lockfile for BunLockfile {
         Err(crate::Error::Bun(Error::NotImplemented()))
     }
 
-    fn global_change_key(&self) -> Vec<u8> {
-        vec![b'b', b'u', b'n', 0]
+    fn global_change(&self, other: &dyn Lockfile) -> bool {
+        let any_other = other as &dyn Any;
+        // Downcast returns none if the concrete type doesn't match
+        // if the types don't match then we changed package managers
+        any_other.downcast_ref::<Self>().is_none()
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/lib.rs b/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/lib.rs
index 571ab475b201f..cff0574bc8c58 100644
--- a/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#![feature(trait_upcasting)]
 #![deny(clippy::all)]
 
 mod berry;
@@ -7,7 +8,10 @@ mod npm;
 mod pnpm;
 mod yarn1;
 
-use std::collections::{HashMap, HashSet};
+use std::{
+    any::Any,
+    collections::{HashMap, HashSet},
+};
 
 pub use berry::{Error as BerryError, *};
 pub use bun::BunLockfile;
@@ -27,7 +31,7 @@ pub struct Package {
 // This trait will only be used when migrating the Go lockfile implementations
 // to Rust. Once the migration is complete we will leverage petgraph for doing
 // our graph calculations.
-pub trait Lockfile: Send + Sync {
+pub trait Lockfile: Send + Sync + Any {
     // Given a workspace, a package it imports and version returns the key, resolved
     // version, and if it was found
     fn resolve_package(
@@ -53,13 +57,8 @@ pub trait Lockfile: Send + Sync {
         Ok(Vec::new())
     }
 
-    /// Present a global change key which is compared against two lockfiles
-    ///
-    /// Impl notes: please prefix this key with some magic identifier
-    /// to prevent clashes. we are not worried about inter-version
-    /// compatibility so these keys don't need to be stable. They are
-    /// ephemeral.
-    fn global_change_key(&self) -> Vec<u8>;
+    /// Determine if there's a global change between two lockfiles
+    fn global_change(&self, other: &dyn Lockfile) -> bool;
 }
 
 /// Takes a lockfile, and a map of workspace directory paths -> (package name,
diff --git a/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/npm.rs b/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/npm.rs
index e3cffea4ba5d3..2cf3aebba395a 100644
--- a/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/npm.rs
+++ b/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/npm.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::{any::Any, collections::HashMap};
 
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
-use serde_json::{json, Value};
+use serde_json::Value;
 
 use super::{Error, Lockfile, Package};
 
@@ -136,19 +136,14 @@ impl Lockfile for NpmLockfile {
         Ok(serde_json::to_vec_pretty(&self)?)
     }
 
-    fn global_change_key(&self) -> Vec<u8> {
-        let mut buf = vec![b'n', b'p', b'm', 0];
-
-        serde_json::to_writer(
-            &mut buf,
-            &json!({
-                "requires": &self.other.get("requires"),
-                "version": &self.lockfile_version,
-            }),
-        )
-        .expect("writing to Vec cannot fail");
-
-        buf
+    fn global_change(&self, other: &dyn Lockfile) -> bool {
+        let any_other = other as &dyn Any;
+        if let Some(other) = any_other.downcast_ref::<Self>() {
+            self.lockfile_version != other.lockfile_version
+                || self.other.get("requires") != other.other.get("requires")
+        } else {
+            true
+        }
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/pnpm/data.rs b/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/pnpm/data.rs
index 0d9749ae49c67..3a8030f8225e2 100644
--- a/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/pnpm/data.rs
+++ b/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/pnpm/data.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-use std::borrow::Cow;
+use std::{any::Any, borrow::Cow, collections::BTreeMap};
 
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
-use serde_json::json;
 use turbopath::RelativeUnixPathBuf;
 
 use super::{dep_path::DepPath, Error, LockfileVersion};
@@ -252,6 +251,27 @@ impl PnpmLockfile {
         }
         Ok(pruned_patches)
     }
+
+    // Create a projection of all fields in the lockfile that could affect all
+    // workspaces
+    fn global_fields(&self) -> GlobalFields {
+        GlobalFields {
+            version: &self.lockfile_version.version,
+            checksum: self.package_extensions_checksum.as_deref(),
+            overrides: self.overrides.as_ref(),
+            patched_dependencies: self.patched_dependencies.as_ref(),
+            settings: self.settings.as_ref(),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+struct GlobalFields<'a> {
+    version: &'a str,
+    checksum: Option<&'a str>,
+    overrides: Option<&'a BTreeMap<String, String>>,
+    patched_dependencies: Option<&'a BTreeMap<String, PatchFile>>,
+    settings: Option<&'a LockfileSettings>,
 }
 
 impl crate::Lockfile for PnpmLockfile {
@@ -401,22 +421,13 @@ impl crate::Lockfile for PnpmLockfile {
         Ok(patches)
     }
 
-    fn global_change_key(&self) -> Vec<u8> {
-        let mut buf = vec![b'p', b'n', b'p', b'm', 0];
-
-        serde_json::to_writer(
-            &mut buf,
-            &json!({
-                "version": self.lockfile_version.version,
-                "checksum": self.package_extensions_checksum,
-                "overrides": self.overrides,
-                "patched_deps": self.patched_dependencies,
-                "settings": self.settings,
-            }),
-        )
-        .expect("writing to Vec cannot fail");
-
-        buf
+    fn global_change(&self, other: &dyn crate::Lockfile) -> bool {
+        let any_other = other as &dyn Any;
+        if let Some(other) = any_other.downcast_ref::<Self>() {
+            self.global_fields() != other.global_fields()
+        } else {
+            true
+        }
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/yarn1/mod.rs b/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/yarn1/mod.rs
index e26c65d99f9c6..5ba6b8dcacc36 100644
--- a/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/yarn1/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/turborepo-lockfiles/src/yarn1/mod.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use std::str::FromStr;
+use std::{any::Any, str::FromStr};
 
 use serde::Deserialize;
 
@@ -108,8 +108,11 @@ impl Lockfile for Yarn1Lockfile {
         Ok(self.to_string().into_bytes())
     }
 
-    fn global_change_key(&self) -> Vec<u8> {
-        vec![b'y', b'a', b'r', b'n', 0]
+    fn global_change(&self, other: &dyn Lockfile) -> bool {
+        let any_other = other as &dyn Any;
+        // Downcast returns none if the concrete type doesn't match
+        // if the types don't match then we changed package managers
+        any_other.downcast_ref::<Self>().is_none()
     }
 }