Kyle,
On Sat, 27 May 2006, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> 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.
Woody, ... I said Woody, not Sarge.
2.4 kernel distributions under Woody had this problem.
--brian
--
Brian F. G. Bidulock ¦ The reasonable man adapts himself to the ¦
[email protected] ¦ world; the unreasonable one persists in ¦
http://www.openss7.org/ ¦ trying to adapt the world to himself. ¦
¦ Therefore all progress depends on the ¦
¦ unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw ¦
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
