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    SubjectRe: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system?
    > > > How does one check the existence of the kernel source RPM (or deb) on
    > > > every single distribution?.
    > > >
    > > > We know that rpm -qa | grep kernel-source works on Redhat, Fedora,
    > > > SuSE, Mandrake and CentOS - how about other RPM based distros? How
    > > > about debian based distros?. There doesn't seem to be a a single
    > > > conherent naming scheme.
    > >
    > > I'd really like to see a distro-agnostic way to retrieve the kernel
    > > configuration. /proc/config.gz has existed for soem time but many
    > > distros inexplicably don't enable it.
    >
    > /boot/config-`uname -r`

    What's the reason for distros to disable /proc/config.gz?
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