On 15 May 2003, Ronald Reed wrote:
> >From a script that I got from another list:
>
> RHVer=`rpm -qp --qf "%{version}\n" RedHat/RPMS/redhat-release-*.rpm`
The question was about the architecture, not the release.
Michael's approach is imperfect, even on RHL 7.3: if fails if there's a
i386 kernel installed, returns multiple values if there are several.
>
> This is supposed to work for 7.3, 8.0, or 9.0, just change the
> RedHat/RPMS to where the rpms are located.
>
> Ron
>
> On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 14:13, Michael J. Carter wrote:
> > In RedHat 7.X one could determine the ARCH of a system by executing the
> > following command in arch:
> >
> > carter@guglielmo$ rpm -q --qf '%{ARCH}\n' kernel
> > i686
> >
> > This returns null in RedHat 9 when executed inside kickstart. Does
> > anyone know what changed and if there are any workarounds?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > mjc
>
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