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

[Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>]

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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