Redhat and kernel question

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: 13 Mar 2003 12:50:28 EST
Jeff Macdonald said:

>Um, I do want to know what CPU the kernel was compiled for. Is the -m
>flag not correct?

I think what he's saying is that uname only provides information
about the current architecture.  Thus, if you are running a kernel on 
an i686, that's what uname -m will report, whereas if you take that 
same kernel and run it on a 486, uname -m on that machine will report 
i486.

What you want is information from the rpm package itself, not uname.
As Ben pointed out, the defaults for rpm don't show this information, 
however, this command does:

	ben> rpm -q kernel --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} %{ARCH}\n'
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Paul
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