On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 13:55 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 12May2006 22:58, Frank Pineau <frank@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > | On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 09:12 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > | > Right. But, as Rob pointed out, the OP is running the smp kernel. I > | > tend to do the grep thingy to remind myself of having the devel packages > | > loaded as well as other self built kernels. > | > | Well there's an odd thing. I tried rpm -q kernel on mine to see what > | happens (I've always done rpm -qa |grep kernel) and it returned my > | kernels just fine. Thing is, I'm running SMP x86_64 kernels, but it's > | only listed as SMP when I do a uname -a. Am I missing something? > > Well, on my box: > > [~]#root@zoob*> rpm -qf /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4smp > kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4 > > So I'd say the SMP kernel is a separate package. What does: > > rpm -q kernel > rpm -q kernel-smp > > say? > > Oh, while on the x86_64 subject I discovered that some RHEL boxes I look > after have both i386 and x86_64 packages installed, and that "rpm -qa" > is singularly annoying in that case because its default behaviour is > not to include the architecture. So eg "rpm -qa | grep foo" will often > list the same name twice and "rpm -ev foo" will refuse to work because > it matches multiple packages. > > So I now have an "rpmq" script: > > http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs//css/bin/rpmq > > that sets up the report format string to include the architecture, > which still gives you package names you can hand to "rpm -e". I found > this handy when pruning down an install for a production machine. It's been suggested before that the default query format for rpm should include the architecture (the epoch might arguably be sensible to include too); the problem with this is that it would break lots of existing scripts that depend on the current default output format, and that's why the change hasn't happened. Paul.
