On May 26, 2006, at 11:35:30, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
On Fri, 26 May 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
/boot/config-`uname -r`
Debian (Woody), OTOH strips extra names of their kernels, so 3 or 4
different releases of the same upstream kernel version all install
with the same name and report `uname -r` the same. If multiple of
these kernels and a vanilla kernel are installed, their config
files will be difficult to distinguish. dpkg can be used (similar
to above for rpm) to test the condition.
Huh? My Debian system here has:
/boot/config-2.6.15-1-powerpc-smp
This corresponds to the config of the currently installed version and
revision ("2.6.15-8") of the "linux-image-2.6.15-1-powerpc-smp"
package. Since you can only have one version of a given package
installed at once, this poses no problems.
If I upgrade to a new one (say "2.6.15-9") that changes the config
slightly or adds a new distro patch, then that config and kernel
image would replace the currently installed one. If I use make-kpkg
to build and install a custom kernel tuned for "host":
make-kpkg [args] --append-to-version -zeus1-1-powerpc-smp --
revision 1 kernel_image
Now I get a package "linux-image-2.6.15-zeus1-1-powerpc-smp" version
"2.6.15-1", with:
/boot/config-2.6.15-zeus1-1-powerpc-smp
I see no potential for confusion or mismatch here.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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