Bug#437459: Details

[Thibaut VARENE]

Hi

Apparently I've been a little quick on my analysis of the problem. The
platform field is not a replacement, more to the point not all
machines provide a "machine" field.

The platform field will always be there, the machine field may not.
The machine field provides more precise informations than the platform
one.

Examples:
on a pmac G5:
platform        : PowerMac
machine         : PowerMac11,2

on a Pegasos II CHRP machine:
platform        : CHRP
machine         : CHRP Pegasos2

but on PS3:
platform        : PS3

(no "machine" field).

The problem is the machine field always appear /after/ the platform
one. So we have two options:

1/ only use the platform field (easy solution, one liner patch)
2/ be smarter and use platform if we don't have a machine field, but
this involves more code (temporary storage of the platform value until
we can assert whether or not we have a machine field), which might be
a little overkill. Alternatively we could probably add the content of
the machine field into the "features" section of the info collected by
the client (apparently that's what the OSX client does)

The patch I sent isn't really wrong in any case, it will just always
pick the platform field since it comes first, but it could be made
simpler if we settle on option 1...

HTH

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Thibaut VARENE
http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/