[rhelv6-beta-list] kernel-release now appends the arch
David Cantrell
dcantrell at redhat.com
Thu Apr 29 00:07:58 UTC 2010
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Ned Slider wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> More an observation, but 'uname -r' (kernel-release) now appends the arch.
> For example:
>
> on RHEL5:
>
> $ uname -r
> 2.6.18-194.el5
>
> on RHEL6:
>
> $ uname -r
> 2.6.32-19.el6.i686
>
> Which causes havoc in scripts/spec files etc that are using 'uname -r'.
How about this for your scripts:
kver="$(basename $(uname -r) .$(uname -m))"
To emulate RHEL-5 functionality? Though now [beta] is a good time for you to
update your scripts.
- --
David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI
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