Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system?

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Diego Calleja <[email protected]> writes:

> El Thu, 25 May 2006 18:29:22 -0400,
> Lee Revell <[email protected]> escribió:
>
>> 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.
>
> /proc/config.gz takes a bit of memory, and wasting such memory when

Yes, 9k on my machine.

> you can store the config at /boot/config-`uname -r` is a bit weird.

There's no guaranteeing that file will match the running kernel.  Then
again, modules can be changed without /proc/config.gz changing.

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Måns Rullgård
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