[Rpm-maint] sparc fixes

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Apr 3 12:56:10 UTC 2009


On 04/03/2009 02:10 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>> On 04/02/2009 01:27 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>> On Thursday, April 02 2009, Tom spot Callaway said:
>>>> When we updated the Fedora SPARC buildsystems to rpm 4.6.0, sparcv9v
>>>> packages were no longer installable. The attached patch resolves the
>>>> issue. Unfortunately, the sanest way to correctly determine the cpu
>>>> type
>>>> on SPARCs is to parse /proc/cpuinfo.
> 
> Hmm, any particular reason why uname(2) can't be used?

uname doesn't return the sub architecture. It just says "sparc64".

~spot


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