Thanks for your answer, Claudius! 19.05.2013 14:41, Claudius Hubig:
> Markus Schönhaber wrote: >> ~# uname -a >> Linux wheezy 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux >> ~# ls -l /boot/vm* >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2833376 May 15 23:58 /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 >> ~# >> >> There is no date in the uname output anymore, which I could compare to >> the kernel image file's timestamp. > > You are now supposed to compare the Debian package version reported > by uname (3.2.41-2 in the example above) against the one currently > installed (e.g. using dpkg -l). OK, that is a way. To me, this seems to be a very awkward way, though. > /proc/version still reports the build > time for me, though. Alas, for me it doesn't. >> doesn't sound convincing to me. As an administrator, I couldn't care >> less what source was used to build the kernel package installed. > > As the source package used to build the kernel uniquely identifies the > kernel, you should only care about the source package version? Someone seems to think I should care. They think I should care on wheezy - but not on squid or any other Linux distribution I have to cope with. Well, I'll continue to not care (mostly, at least)... Anyway, it is still way beyond me how this change can be thought of as an improvement. I could well live with it if the oh-so-important source package version was *added* to uname's output instead of being put in the place of the info I really *do* care for. But as it is, someone has made a change that gains me nothing but makes my life a tiny bit harder. -- Regards mks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5198dd3a.2070...@list-post.mks-mail.de
