At 07:15 PM 5/6/02, you wrote: >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
As part of this, msec complains bitterly when someone builds their own kernel. Mandrake's kernel-source package includes all the .depend files, which get changed while building a new kernel. msec detects all these changed files and generates warning messages. THIS IS WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. Mandrake Team - please include "make mrproper" as part of procedure when building the kernel-source package. It will work much, much better with msec. Thanks. David
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