Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2358 mails)

[kuhlmav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Volker Kuhlmann)]

Hi all,

Where can I find the .config file which SuSE used to compile the kernel
for 6.2? Having just come from Red Hat I don't like the time it takes
to still not find this information.

Red Hat has the kernel and the modules in a kernel-???.i386.rpm, the
kernel source in another binary(!) rpm called kernel-source-???.i386.rpm,
and the source rpm is called kernel-???.src.rpm. The source rpm contains
all .config files for the various SMP etc kernels shipped.

With SuSE, the kernel is called, well, base, aaa_base, aaaaa, aaaaaaa,
haahaaaaaaa, whatever. Is that necessary? I certainly don't find it
useful when grep'ing for something like kernel/source/vmlinuz/etc. Worst,
/boot/vmlinuz isn't even owned by any package!!!!!!!! How did that file
get there? Where from?

Modules are in kernmod, fine, though I don't particularly see why having
them separately is an advantage. Kernel headers (required for compiling
most things) are in linclude. The kernel source is called linux - I even
found it after some searching. All these are binary rpms. There is no
source rpm.

This is a major mess - tidying that up shouldn't be all that hard,
so PLEASE.

For the time being, could someone please speak up if I overlooked the
file, or else would SuSE care to post it? Being able to recreate things
by running rpm on the source rpm is a feature I expected of an rpm-based
system. I would like to recompile the kernel but only change one thing
at a time (or only one thing at all).

Thanks,

Volker


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