[Rpm-maint] sparc fixes

[Ralf Corsepius]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> 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".
>   
Well, sounds pretty much like a bug in uname (rsp. it's underlaying 
infrastructure) to me.

Ralf