[rhelv6-beta-list] kernel-release now appends the arch

Ned Slider ned at unixmail.co.uk
Mon May 3 17:47:39 UTC 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'.
> 

Bug filed:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588430




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