Did the "uname" change on ppc64 in Rawhide?

[Mary Ellen Foster]

2008/5/21 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>:
> Thanks for the info. I see the history behind this in
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/211069 and understand why it was done. It's
> easily enough fixed for ppc64 in my (ancient) package, though I suspect I'm
> going to need to fix it again for the various secondary architectures at
> some point.

Thankfully, the issue has already (!!!) been fixed upstream for the
package I was concerned about --
http://gollem.science.uva.nl/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=357
I wonder how many other packages will be bitten by this change in
rpmbuild; I guess that's the point of Rawhide, though. :)

MEF

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Mary Ellen Foster -- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/
Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München
and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh