Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? | From | Måns Rullgård <> | Date | Fri, 26 May 2006 01:24:18 +0100 |
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Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com> writes:
> El Thu, 25 May 2006 18:29:22 -0400, > Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> escribió: > >> 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. > > /proc/config.gz takes a bit of memory, and wasting such memory when
Yes, 9k on my machine.
> you can store the config at /boot/config-`uname -r` is a bit weird.
There's no guaranteeing that file will match the running kernel. Then again, modules can be changed without /proc/config.gz changing.
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