Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? | | From | Lee Revell <> | | Date | Thu, 25 May 2006 18:29:22 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 21:19 +0000, devmazumdar wrote: > How does one check the existence of the kernel source RPM (or deb) on > every single distribution?. > We know that rpm -qa | grep kernel-source works on Redhat, Fedora, > SuSE, Mandrake and CentOS - how about other RPM based distros? How > about debian based distros?. There doesn't seem to be a a single > conherent naming scheme.
I'd really like to see a distro-agnostic way to retrieve the kernel configuration. /proc/config.gz has existed for soem time but many distros inexplicably don't enable it.
Lee
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