The ignorance of uname

2005-06-21 Thread Declan Moriarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a Linux genius 2.4.22 #1 Fri Apr 15 15:29:56 IST 2005 i686 AuthenticAMD unknown GNU/Linux How come uname doesn't know this is an LFS box? Even if LFS hasn't arrived in the notions of uname maintainers, isn't there some smart-alec sed hierioglyphics, squiggles

Re: The ignorance of uname

2005-06-21 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 12:19 +0200, Uli Fahrenberg wrote: 6.15.1. Installation of Coreutils A known issue with the uname program from this package is that the -p switch always returns unknown. The following patch fixes this behavior for Intel architectures: patch -Np1 -i

Re: The ignorance of uname

2005-06-21 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words Declan Moriarty, Jun 21, 11:28 +0100: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a Linux genius 2.4.22 #1 Fri Apr 15 15:29:56 IST 2005 i686 AuthenticAMD unknown GNU/Linux How come uname doesn't know this is an LFS box? \quote 6.15.1. Installation of

Re: The ignorance of uname

2005-06-21 Thread Nathan Coulson
So much for the post mortem. Is coreutils system critical or can I update it without freaking things? Shouldn't have any problems updating it, but this is hardly a critical problem. the coreutils program does overwrite a few binaries installed by later packages though, so you will have to