On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 03:17:49AM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > > > One good reason to do it is that you can be sure the config matches > > > exactly what is currently running. > > ls /boot/config-`uname -r` > > It does not give the same guarantees as /proc/config.gz though, it may not > even exist. The only way it wouldn't exist that's been demonstrated so far has been through someone cluelessly installing a kernel by non-standard means. (rpmbuild does the right thing, make install does the right thing, leaving just a series of cp's/mv's by hand as the only possible way to screw up). There's still no guarantee that /proc/config.gz exists either (supposing I enabled /proc/config.gz in the Fedora kernel). There's still the possibility that someone is running a self-compiled kernel with it disabled. So anything outside the kernel package that needs those config options can't rely on it, and would need to support both /boot *and* /proc, which is just adding pointless complexity to other packages. This thread has got about as interesting as the 'where is the kernel-source for fc3' threads. Can we stop kicking this dead horse now? Dave
