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

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 18:29 -0400, 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.

/boot/config-`uname -r`


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