Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 May 2006 04:13:12 -0600 | From | "Brian F. G. Bidulock" <> | Subject | Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? |
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Arjan,
On Sun, 28 May 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > But not the right place for the running kernel. /boot/config-`uname -r` will > > be of the wrong architecture for the running kernel. > > so yes you can use --force to cause it to overwrite a file. DUH. > Big yawn as will since this file isn't needed for anything but for a > human to build his own kernel; if that human first does the really silly > --force thing (which is a great way to hose your system) then he knows > there might not be an exact match. Big Yawn(tm) :) >
Well, Mandriva doesn't have even this problem because the architecture is part of the kernel name.
For others its worth sanity checking
rpm -q --qf "%{ARCH}\n" --what-provides /boot/config-`uname -r`
against
uname -m
to ensure that the architecture matches.
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