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.
--brian
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