Why can't display all installed kernel with rpm -q

Jonathan Berry berryja at gmail.com
Sat May 13 03:59:21 UTC 2006


On 5/12/06, Frank Pineau <frank at pineaus.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 09:12 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > Right.  But, as Rob pointed out, the OP is running the smp kernel.  I
> > tend to do the grep thingy to remind myself of having the devel packages
> > loaded as well as other self built kernels.
>
> Well there's an odd thing.  I tried rpm -q kernel on mine to see what
> happens (I've always done rpm -qa |grep kernel) and it returned my
> kernels just fine.  Thing is, I'm running SMP x86_64 kernels, but it's
> only listed as SMP when I do a uname -a.  Am I missing something?

The x86_64 kernel is now (as of FC5) SMP only.  So one kernel covers
both the SMP and non-SMP case.  So there is no reason to have smp in
the package name.
Jonathan




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