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From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] depclean pwdb?
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:08:57
Message-Id: 9acccfe50707160703v6bfca8demdb73ad7686d6295d@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] depclean pwdb? by Thufir
1 On 7/15/07, Thufir <hawat.thufir@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > On 7/15/07, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >
5 > > > Thanks, guys. What about that kernel? I'm thinking it's probably not
6 > > > the kernel I'm using, but I'm not positive.
7 > > >
8 > > >
9 > > > thanks,
10 > >
11 > > gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r8 for me.
12 > [...]
13 >
14 > <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml> to get that information?
15
16
17 No.
18
19 I use the "uname -s -r -v" command. On my system, this says:
20 Linux 2.6.20-gentoo-r8-kosmanor #2 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 7 09:40:04 PDT 2007
21
22 Which tells me the running kernel is gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r8, with
23 tailoring for my preferences ("kosmanor"), the second compile (at the date
24 and time given), including SMP and pre-emptive scheduling,
25
26 You can also peek at your boot loader configuration. In my case it's
27 /boot/grub/menu.lst. You should be able to figure out which is your default
28 kernel.
29 You can also look at the output of "eix -I sources", the "-I" holding the
30 output to packages that have at least one version installed.
31
32 ++ kevin
33
34 --
35 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD