Re: Architecture guess for Fedora update

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 16:25 +0100, Martin Sivak wrote:
> It is related to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430115
> 
> And the patch in question is:

Note, in the future, it's far better to attach the patch so that we
don't have to go off and dig for information.  Also happens in doing
review while off-line.

> > We have something like this in yuminstall.py, but i think this is more
> > general and it would be possible to use it in _checkUpgradeArch in there as
> > well.
> >
> > But I'm not sure about the rpm database stuff (what about database
> > locks?) and also the python-magic module will be new in the stage2 image (cca
> > 300KB).
> >
> > Without those two concerns, the code works on at least 4 machines here
> > in the office.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=295173

This looks a bit more complicated than it really needs to be.  bash and
initscripts *have* to be installed.  So just check the arch of one of
them and it should be good.  Using python-magic, etc is going to be
overkill. 

Jeremy