Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030499AbWEYWja (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 18:39:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030500AbWEYWj3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 18:39:29 -0400 Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net ([63.240.77.83]:25278 "EHLO sccrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030499AbWEYWj3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 18:39:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4476321A.8090508@opensound.com> Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 15:39:22 -0700 From: 4Front Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060404 SeaMonkey/1.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Revell CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? References: <1148596163.31038.30.camel@mindpipe> In-Reply-To: <1148596163.31038.30.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1521 Lines: 42 Lee Revell wrote: > 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 > > A-men to that!. Basically what really needs to happen is for all the distros to adopt Fedora's way of shipping kernel headers. If you're not going to ship source for the kernel, atleast ship kernel headers for the kernel that you are running. Anything to get out-of-kernel modules compiling without jumping through 1000 hoops is good. best regards Dev Mazumdar ----------------------------------------------------------- 4Front Technologies 4035 Lafayette Place, Unit F, Culver City, CA 90232, USA. Tel: (310) 202 8530 URL: www.opensound.com Fax: (310) 202 0496 Email: info@opensound.com ----------------------------------------------------------- - 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/