Good day.
According to my university task I have to write about all files in my /boot directory. Google+man gave a lot of good answers, but I found few files and I don’t know what are they function.
Here are the list of these files:
symsets-2.6.27.45-0.1-debug.tar.gz
symsets-2.6.27.45-0.1-default.tar.gz
symsets-2.6.27.45-0.1-ec2.tar.gz
symsets-2.6.27.45-0.1-pae.tar.gz
symsets-2.6.27.45-0.1-trace.tar.gz
symsets-2.6.27.45-0.1-vmi.tar.gz
symsets-2.6.27.45-0.1-xen.tar.gz
symtypes-2.6.27.45-0.1-pae.gz
symvers-2.6.27.45-0.1-pae.gz
Can you write something about them or give me a link to information about them?
The response from the above command will be a package name. I would want to find out more about that package.
Example:
rpm -qi kernel-debug-devel
Example:
rpm -ql kernel-debug-devel|less
The response will contain package information, files, URL. I’d goto that URL for
additional information.
It is “standard” to have some sort of readme file. Look for that, it can be
helpful.
If the file is compress/archived consider listing its content using the appropriate
command.
Example:
tar -tf xxx
gunzip -l xxx
Copy the file to a temp directory and extract it and view with less, nano, vi, kate,
etc. If it’s binary, do a hexdump -C.
Look in the package documentation directory. Usually, in OpenSUSE, /usr/share/doc/packages.
In the kernel’s case: /usr/src/linux/* /usr/share/doc/kernel/*.