uname -p

der.hans wrote:

> moin, moin,
>
> debian's packaged 2.4.x kernels now return something other than 'unknown'
> for 'uname -p'. This is a departure from the past.
>
> Anyone know when/why this change was made?

coreutils (4.5.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version
     - translations fixed (Closes: #161629, #163712)
   * .jar color fixed (Closes: #163838)
   * dired test doesn't break for non-english locale (Closes: #161069)
   * more specific uname processor output (Closes: #88070)
     - let's see how people react to this one :)

-- Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> Tue, 08 Oct 2002 21:42:27 -0400

>
> I looked through the changelogs that came with the kernel package and
> didn't
> see anything obvious. Maybe I'm just oblivious...


I actually remember seeing this a few weeks ago. apt-listchanges and
http://packages.debian.org are your friends.

--
Michael Crusoe
Student at large