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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000511 | AlmaLinux-10 | General | public | 2025-06-04 00:58 | 2025-06-05 21:25 |
| Reporter | amcrae42 | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Platform | x86_64 | OS | Almalinux | OS Version | 10.0 |
| Summary | 0000511: uname -i no longer works | ||||
| Description | alma10# uname -a Linux alma10.island42.net 6.12.0-55.9.1.el10_0.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat May 24 12:41:28 EDT 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux alma10# uname -i unknown It should return x86_64. Same on both my test platforms. This breaks scripts. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | See above. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/coreutils/-/commit/cd953e11dd78cada371f0389171cea671949141b The downstream patch for uname -i was dropped in EL10 (meaning this is an intentional change). This is a good read: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/UnameOnPlatformFields |
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Thank you for your explanation. I can't understand the mindset of people who make things intentionally incompatible between releases. Whilst it may be meaningless across a disparate range of OSes it could at least be kept meaningful throughout the upstream diaspora. |
