Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030489AbWEYW30 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 18:29:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030488AbWEYW30 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 18:29:26 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:37255 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030486AbWEYW30 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 18:29:26 -0400 Subject: Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? From: Lee Revell To: devmazumdar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 18:29:22 -0400 Message-Id: <1148596163.31038.30.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 817 Lines: 20 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/