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

From: Michal Piotrowski
Date: Thu May 25 2006 - 17:32:00 EST


Hi,

On 25/05/06, devmazumdar <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How does one check the existence of the kernel source RPM (or deb) on
every single distribution?.

How about something like this

if [ -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/Makefile ]
then
...
fi

[snip]

provide a stable kernel API, then atleast please make this a requirement.


best regards

Dev Mazumdar
4Front Technologies
http://www.opensound.com

Regards,
Michal

--
Michal K. K. Piotrowski
LTG - Linux Testers Group
(http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/ltg/wiki/)
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