[Bug 470550] Re: uname -p and uname -i reporting `unknown'

[Sebastien Bacher]

Now would be the time in the cycle to get such change in, Colin, Mathias
do you think it makes sense? Could you sponsor it if that's the case?

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uname -p and uname -i reporting `unknown'
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Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
Status in “coreutils” source package in Lucid: Won't Fix

Bug description:
Binary package hint: coreutils

got bitten by build scripts using these; apparently on other distributions they report something else than `unknown'. these configure scripts make wrong assumptions:

       -p, --processor
              print the processor type or "unknown"

       -i, --hardware-platform
              print the hardware platform or "unknown"

Nevertheless for less surprises it would be useful to set these values to something else than "unknown".