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

["Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 28/05/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> /boot/config-`uname -r` goes a long way, and yes I'm ignoring the "but
> users CAN clobber the file if they use enough violence against their
> packaging system" argument entirely. That's just a bogus one.
You are also ignoring the fact that not all distros store configs
there (and/or under that name).


> Also... why would there really be a need for such a way? Not for
> building anything for sure.... it's for the human. And the human seems
> to just find it already (and again the boot file works well in practice
> it seems)

My personal favorite is /proc/config.gz . It has the very nice
property that even if I misplace my config file (or rebuild my tree
several times with different configs and don't save the one for my
running kernel) then I can always get the config for any of the
kernels I have installed, simply by booting it (or extracting it from
the kernel image).

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