[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Fix architecture detection in ldapupdate

[Rob Crittenden]

Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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> Martin Nagy wrote:
>> I noticed the architecture detection won't work, since
>> platform.platform() will return something like
>> 'Linux-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686-i686-with-fedora-9-Sulphur'. After the
>> patch the detection should be better and we explicitly ask about the
>> bits, not just the arch.
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>> I also did a tiny change in a while loop.
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>> Martin
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> Since I don't know where this return value goes, I want to ask a
> question. Is it only the 64-bit nature that matters, or is the x86_64
> architecture directly relevant?
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> In other words, the previous code was checking for x86_64 processors
> only, but now you've expanded it to potentially include IA64, Sparc64, etc.
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I wasn't being that clever (excluding other arches). The target arch for 
the server right now is intel-only.

rob
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