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SubjectRe: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system?
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On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 15:03 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > > > 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?

what would be a reason to ENable it???
it's double functionality that does take memory away...

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