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

[Lee Revell]

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

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