Messages in this thread | | | From | Kyle Moffett <> | Subject | Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? | Date | Sat, 27 May 2006 10:41:28 -0400 |
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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.
Cheers, Kyle Moffett
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