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

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 13:52 -0600, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
> Arjan,
> 
> On Sat, 27 May 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Redhat and SuSE put /boot/config- files of the same name for different
> > > architectures (i386, i586) in the same file.  If multiple architecture
> > > kernels of the same verion are installed, there is no guarantee that the
> > > /boot/config-`uname -r` is not for, say, i686 instead of i386.  
> > 
> > at least on fedora you can't do that parallel installation anyway
> 
> rpm --force

at which point 95% of the files get overwritten including the config
file, which then points to the right place of the 2nd kernel you abuse
onto your system.

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