[Dazuko-devel] Mandrake 10.1 confirmed to work with Dazuko 2.0.4

[John Ogness]

Hi,

I downloaded the Mandrake 10.1 Community Edition images and tried it with 
Dazuko 2.0.4. As with Mandrake 10.0 (and Fedora Core 2), capabilities have 
been built into the kernel. Running `./configure' with Dazuko 2.0.4 this is 
properly detected.

Recompiling the kernel is pretty easy... usually. But Mandrake has some 
issues with their default kernel settings.

With 10.0 there was the problem that security modules would not be installed 
after running `make modules_install`.

With 10.1 there is the problem that the modules are installed in 
/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdkcustom but the kernel goes by the original name of 
2.6.8.1-10mdksmp. The easiest solution is to rename the "custom" modules 
directory to the name of the original directory.

People who are familiar with compiling kernels will not have a problem with 
this. People who are not will most likely be confused.

Hopefully for Mandrake 10.2 they will "clean up" their kernel defaults. Not 
only should Capabilities be built as a module by default, but the process of 
compiling new kernels should also be fixed so that users only have to do the 
standard:

# make menuconfig
# make
# make modules_install
# make install

If anyone has access to Mandrake members or bug lists, it would be helpful 
to point these things out to them.

John Ogness

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Dazuko Maintainer