Mandrake has long had the problem where they ship a "dirty" kernel that requires a make mrproper before you are ready to compile (not sure bout 8.2, but 8.1, 8.0 etc). Also there is one or more versions where you actually had to load a setup file before you had a match between what you are running and what is to be compiled. This keeps catching out people who move from other distro's who seem to get this area more right than Mandrake does. I get the impression that Mandrake is aiming for an out-of-the-box distro, rather than expending effort in making customisation of this sort easy for newbies. i.e., not done on purpose, but kernel compiles are not part of the main effort.
It appears much of his problems stem from: a) unfamiliarity with Mandrakes way of doing things b) and comeing from another distro(s) that do things in different ways, and therefore making wrong assumptions such as the kernel should make exactly what is running "NOW" with no re-configuration neccessary. BillK On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 04:11, Alexander Skwar wrote: > �Alastair Scott� sagte am 2002-05-06 um 15:22:12 +0100 : > > Although it's written in the characteristic The Register style (halfway > > Well, it's a very bad review, indeed. In the sense, that the author > should not bash Mdk for something that's only the authors fault. > > He complains, that the kernel .config doesn't reflect reality. > > Well, did he use the correct one from /boot? He doesn't say so, but I > assume he didn't. > > This alone let's me assume that he doesn't have a clue and just wants to > bash 8.2. Fine. > > Alexander Skwar > -- > How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) > Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > iso-top.de - Die g�nstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen > Uptime: 1 day 4 hours 36 minutes > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially > dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following > log describes which actions were taken. > > Sanitizer (start="1020716458"): > Part (pos="2819"): > SanitizeFile (filename="unnamed.txt", mimetype="text/plain"): > Match (rule="2"): > Enforced policy: accept > > Part (pos="3781"): > SanitizeFile (filename="message.footer", mimetype="text/plain"): > Match (rule="default"): > Enforced policy: defang > > Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-604805 > Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-604805 > > Total modifications so far: 1 > > > Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm > $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.54 2002/02/15 16:59:07 bre Exp $
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