Why no /proc/config.gz on FC-3 kernel?

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 01:12:57AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > I guess the argument is: there's a chance that something got skipped
>  > and the a kernel got built with the name matching a /boot/config-* file
>  > but actually with different options -- no risk of that with the /proc
>  > approach.
> There's no risk of it happening with the current approach either.
> The .config that gets packaged is the .config rpmbuild faced
> when it built the RPM. Why would it be different ?

For example if someone rebuilds a kernel with the same name/number outside
of RPM.

But, y'know, Don't Do That.


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