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

[Jeff Vian]

On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 13:55 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 12May2006 22:58, 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?
> 
> Well, on my box:
> 
>   [~]#root at zoob*> rpm -qf /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4smp
>   kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4
> 
> So I'd say the SMP kernel is a separate package. What does:
> 
IIRC FC4 does use the smp kernel,  On FC5 they are merged and the smp
kernel package does not get installed separately.

This works for me.

# rpm -qa kernel\*
kernel-devel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
kernel-2.6.16-1.2080_FC5
kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC5
kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5
kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2080_FC5
kernel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5
kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
kernel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC5

The uname command tells me it is running smp which is correct for an AMD
Athalon 64 X2.

# uname -a
Linux raptor.lab.net 2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 #1 SMP Thu May 4 21:16:04 EDT
2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux



>   rpm -q kernel
>   rpm -q kernel-smp
> 
> say?
> 
> Oh, while on the x86_64 subject I discovered that some RHEL boxes I look
> after have both i386 and x86_64 packages installed, and that "rpm -qa"
> is singularly annoying in that case because its default behaviour is
> not to include the architecture. So eg "rpm -qa | grep foo" will often
> list the same name twice and "rpm -ev foo" will refuse to work because
> it matches multiple packages.
> 
> So I now have an "rpmq" script:
> 
>   http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs//css/bin/rpmq
> 
> that sets up the report format string to include the architecture,
> which still gives you package names you can hand to "rpm -e". I found
> this handy when pruning down an install for a production machine.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
> http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/
> 
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