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Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 12:42:44 +0100 (BST)
From: Elfyn McBratney <elfyn AT ubertales DOT co DOT uk>
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To: Nomen Nescio <nobody AT dizum DOT com>
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Subject: Re: uname -p reports 'unknown' for Athlons?
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On Sun, 11 May 2003, Nomen Nescio wrote:

>   > >>  Who's the sh-utils guru here?  :-)
>   cgf> That could be you!  It's free software, remember?
> 
> Cute, very cute, Chris, and yes, we know full well that this
> is a (mostly) all-volunteer effort as far as fixing nits,
> but that was a very non-responsive and unproductive reply,
> and it would be more helpful if you could tell us who deals
> with bumping versions in code inherited from gnu.org.
> (I.E., sh-utils in general and uname in particular.)
> 
> At least, can any of you -RCM's tell us who's the most familiar
> with configuration-management issues in that part of the tree?

Well, as it's been said it's a side-effect (feature?) of Windows, and this
behaviour isn't just found on Athlon CPUs.

And about the versions thing, it might be down to fileutils, shellutils 
and textutils now being coreutils. 

Elfyn

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Elfyn McBratney
Systems Administrator
ABCtales.com



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