GNU bug report logs - #11184
[lfs-dev] uname -i, -p show 'unknown' after update to coreutils-8.16

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Matthew Burgess <matthew <at> linuxfromscratch.org>

Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 08:37:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: xinglp <xinglp <at> gmail.com>
To: LFS Developers Mailinglist <lfs-dev <at> linuxfromscratch.org>
Cc: 11184 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11184: [lfs-dev] uname -i, -p show 'unknown' after update to coreutils-8.16
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 17:13:29 +0800

在 2012年4月5日 下午4:34，Matthew Burgess <matthew <at> linuxfromscratch.org> 写道：
> That's because we (LFS) dropped the uname patch from
> our build instructions because upstream won't take
> it in its current form.  If my understanding is
> correct, the correct way of implementing this feature
> is by a combination of changes in the kernel & Glibc.
>
> I don't have the skill necessary to do that, and
> by virtue of the fact that these uname patches have
> been floating around for so many years, nobody with
> the skill has the inclination to fix this.
>
> Is this causing you any issues other than purely
> cosmetic ones?
a few of my bash scripts depend on "uname -i" or "uname -p", I think
I'd better change them to use "uname -m".
[sorry, forget to cc to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org]
>
> Regards,
>
> Matt.
>
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