Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 15:03:20 +0200
From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>, devmazumdar <dev@opensound.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system?
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> > > 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.
> 
> /boot/config-`uname -r`

What's the reason for distros to disable /proc/config.gz?
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