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-rw-r--r--perl-install/NEWS3
-rw-r--r--perl-install/detect_devices.pm5
-rw-r--r--perl-install/install/NEWS3
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/perl-install/NEWS b/perl-install/NEWS
index 24c44f14e..f946624e8 100644
--- a/perl-install/NEWS
+++ b/perl-install/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+- fix parsing dmidecode output (broken since we use dmidecode-2.10,
+ aka since November 24 2008)
+
Version 12.32 - 23 April 2009
- don't set umask=0 by default on windows partitions in 'secure' level.
diff --git a/perl-install/detect_devices.pm b/perl-install/detect_devices.pm
index ce6c8e029..2d4f1db85 100644
--- a/perl-install/detect_devices.pm
+++ b/perl-install/detect_devices.pm
@@ -1013,7 +1013,10 @@ sub dmidecode() {
my ($ver, @l) = run_program::get_stdout('dmidecode');
my $tab = "\t";
- if ($ver =~ /(\d+\.\d+)/ && $1 >= 2.7) {
+
+ my ($major, $minor) = $ver =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/;
+
+ if ($major > 2 || $major == 2 && $minor >7) {
#- new dmidecode output is less indented
$tab = '';
#- drop header
diff --git a/perl-install/install/NEWS b/perl-install/install/NEWS
index 099c33a0a..c4a1fcde9 100644
--- a/perl-install/install/NEWS
+++ b/perl-install/install/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+- fix parsing dmidecode output (broken since we use dmidecode-2.10,
+ aka since November 24 2008)
+
Version 12.35 - 24 April 2009
- remove unused parameter in installPackages