On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 05:34:15PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Fabian Grünbichler - 05.09.18, 17:19:
> > On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 02:33:33PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > > Tomas Bortoli - 05.09.18, 08:48:
> > > > is there a place where I find the config used to compile Linux for
> > > > the latest Debian ?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The alternative idea I had is to `apt source linux-image-version`
> > > > but
> > > > that requires to download the whole package.
> > >
> > > Probably via
> > >
> > > https://sources.debian.org/src/linux/4.17.17-1/debian/config/amd64/
> > >
> > > or something like that?
> >
> > linux-image-$(uname -r) ships /boot/config-$(uname -r), which AFAIK is
> > the actual config used to compile that kernel image.
>
> Sure, I know that. And yes, it appears the source package puts the
> config together from various sources. But that was the closest
> approximation I came up with so far.
>
> I am not sure whether there is something similar than sources.debian.org
> for binary packages. I thought there was, but currently I have no idea
> where that might be.
Not that I know of - but it's just a {wget,curl} followed by dpkg
--fsys-tarfile | tar [...] of the binary package away, since both the
package and path are known ;)
