Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 May 2006 16:05:44 -0600 | From | "Brian F. G. Bidulock" <> | Subject | Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? |
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Kyle,
On Sat, 27 May 2006, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On May 26, 2006, at 11:35:30, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote: > > On Fri, 26 May 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >> /boot/config-`uname -r` > > > > Debian (Woody), OTOH strips extra names of their kernels, so 3 or 4 > > different releases of the same upstream kernel version all install > > with the same name and report `uname -r` the same. If multiple of > > these kernels and a vanilla kernel are installed, their config > > files will be difficult to distinguish. dpkg can be used (similar > > to above for rpm) to test the condition. > > Huh? My Debian system here has: > > /boot/config-2.6.15-1-powerpc-smp > > This corresponds to the config of the currently installed version and > revision ("2.6.15-8") of the "linux-image-2.6.15-1-powerpc-smp" > package. Since you can only have one version of a given package > installed at once, this poses no problems. > > If I upgrade to a new one (say "2.6.15-9") that changes the config > slightly or adds a new distro patch, then that config and kernel > image would replace the currently installed one. If I use make-kpkg > to build and install a custom kernel tuned for "host": > > make-kpkg [args] --append-to-version -zeus1-1-powerpc-smp -- > revision 1 kernel_image > > Now I get a package "linux-image-2.6.15-zeus1-1-powerpc-smp" version > "2.6.15-1", with: > > /boot/config-2.6.15-zeus1-1-powerpc-smp > > I see no potential for confusion or mismatch here.
Woody, ... I said Woody, not Sarge.
2.4 kernel distributions under Woody had this problem.
--brian
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