From 644f432a76c59aaf7cd4612a6f5757735eee5452 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@mandriva.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:03:47 +0000
Subject: Document that parsing /etc/release is fragile, because the format of
 this file is undocumented, and there is no definitive way to get version and
 architecture for a given Mandriva system. (Warly sux)

---
 urpm/cfg.pm | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/urpm/cfg.pm b/urpm/cfg.pm
index 887cb545..41639560 100644
--- a/urpm/cfg.pm
+++ b/urpm/cfg.pm
@@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ Returns 1 on success, 0 on failure.
 
 =cut
 
-#- implementations of the substitutions. arch and release are mdk-specific
+#- implementations of the substitutions. arch and release are mdk-specific.
+#- XXX this is fragile code, it's an heuristic that depends on the format of
+#- /etc/release
 
 my ($arch, $release);
 sub _init_arch_release () {
@@ -252,6 +254,6 @@ __END__
 
 Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 MandrakeSoft SA
 
-Copyright (C) 2005 Mandriva SA
+Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Mandriva SA
 
 =cut
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