[NMLUG] Mandriva 2007 shortcoming

[pi at pihost.us (Anthony Martinez)]

Steve Browne wrote:
> Yes, I found one. If you are going to use Mandriva 2007 Powerpack (and
> I would assume the download version is similar), Mandriva provides
> only a "kernel-source-stripped" rpm, meaning it is stripped of the C+
> compiler and *.c header files. My guess is that this is so you can't
> compile your own sources but instead rely on Mandriva's pre-built
> rpms. Simple enough to fix by downloading the full kernel-source from
> elsewhere.
> 

I've had trouble doing that on anything but Debian. Other vendors like to put 
patches, backports, and other strange crap into their kernels, and then build 
all their packages with the assumption that their whack add-ons will still be 
there, and die in new and interesting ways when they're not.

> Steve
> Stephen B. Browne
> sbrowne at ix.netcom.com
> "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
>                           - Walt Disney

-- Pi