[Rpm-maint] sparc fixes

[devzero2000]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> 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?
>
> Ralf
>

Perhaps it is best described here the reason

https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-devel/2006-April/000996.html

Regards
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