[PATCH] docs: $arch does not map 1:1 to uname(2) arch. BZ 1003554

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Tue Sep 3 06:53:31 UTC 2013


On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Zdenek Pavlas <zpavlas at redhat.com> wrote:
> ---
>  docs/yum.conf.5 | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Unable to access the referenced bug, but:

> -This will be replaced with your architecture as listed by os.uname()[4] in
> -Python.
> +This will be replaced with your architecture, as detected using
> +the uname() syscall and /proc/cpuinfo parsing.

IMHO it might not be the best idea to document implementation details
at this level in the man page. It's subject to bitrot which is proven
by the above patch...


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