Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system?

["Brian F. G. Bidulock" <bidulock@openss7.org>]

Arjan,

On Sun, 28 May 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> 
> > But not the right place for the running kernel.  /boot/config-`uname -r` will
> > be of the wrong architecture for the running kernel.
> 
> so yes you can use --force to cause it to overwrite a file. DUH.
> Big yawn as will since this file isn't needed for anything but for a
> human to build his own kernel; if that human first does the really silly
> --force thing (which is a great way to hose your system) then he knows
> there might not be an exact match. Big Yawn(tm) :)
> 

Well, Mandriva doesn't have even this problem because the architecture is
part of the kernel name.

For others its worth sanity checking

  rpm -q --qf "%{ARCH}\n" --what-provides /boot/config-`uname -r`

against

  uname -m

to ensure that the architecture matches.

--brian