Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 May 2006 22:40:07 +0200 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? |
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On 28/05/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > > /boot/config-`uname -r` goes a long way, and yes I'm ignoring the "but > users CAN clobber the file if they use enough violence against their > packaging system" argument entirely. That's just a bogus one. > You are also ignoring the fact that not all distros store configs there (and/or under that name).
> Also... why would there really be a need for such a way? Not for > building anything for sure.... it's for the human. And the human seems > to just find it already (and again the boot file works well in practice > it seems) >
My personal favorite is /proc/config.gz . It has the very nice property that even if I misplace my config file (or rebuild my tree several times with different configs and don't save the one for my running kernel) then I can always get the config for any of the kernels I have installed, simply by booting it (or extracting it from the kernel image).
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