[Asterisk-Users] Mandrake & CAPI & EPIA!

[Dave Cotton]

On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 08:11 +0000, Razza wrote:
> But is is the same kernel, I asked for the sources to be installed as
> part of the config.....not sure why it decides to call the kernel
> 2.6.8.1-12mdk-i586-up-1GB yet dump the sources in 2.6.8.1-12mdk?
> 
> On Behalf Of Adam
> Goryachev
> Sent: 25 February 2005 06:37
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Mandrake & CAPI & EPIA!
> 
> 
> I would suggest you cut your losses and start with a new kernel....
> 
> While you can cheat and pretend that the source you have is the same as
> what you used to compile your kernel, in the end, it isn't, so I doubt
> it will work properly anyway!

There's a thread on Mandrake Cooker at the moment discussing MDK's use
of extraversion.  The synthesis seems to be "we use the extraversion so
that we can see if someone's recompiled the kernel" ergo we can wash our
hands of it if there are problems.

With long experience of Mandrake i.e. from day one, the very first thing
I do is install a vanilla kernel, in the past I've just tried to
recompile the kernel from their source with their .config and had no end
of errors.

That's my 0.02€ for today.

-- 
Dave Cotton <dcotton at linuxautrement.com>