Re: [Cooker] Re: Menuconfig problem

[Thomas Backlund <tmb@mandrake.org>]

Matthew Reppert kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Tiistai 09. Joulukuuta 2003 
17:46):
> On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 08:48, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> > On Monday 08 December 2003 23:02, Aurelian Pop wrote:
> >
> > Hi Aurelian,
> >
> > > I was trying to recomile my kernel and when configuring it I got the
> > > next message:
> > >  Q> scripts/Menuconfig: line 832: MCmenu78: command not found
> > >
> > > Please report this to the maintainer <mec@shout.net>.  You may also
> >
> > you sent that bugreport also to mec@shout.net?
>
> I hope not. ^_^;
>
> http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-21/0234.html
>
> Maybe something like the following would be appropriate? (Of course, the
> real issue is to get Mandrake to say "Please report this to
> someone@mandrake-linux.com" ... )
>

that would be for stable releases:
http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/

and for Cooker:
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/


> (For the Mandrake people, lkml gets occasional messages from people
> building Mandrake kernels where Menuconfig fails at the ALSA menu
> due to a bug that's been fixed in Mandrake sources for a while, the
> attached patch will at least make sure lkml and the previous kbuild
> maintainer don't get those messages anymore; it also hints that people
> should try with a newer distro kernel.)
>
> Matt
>
>   Remove visible references to mec@shout.net from Menuconfig, since he
>   no longer maintains it.
>
>
>
> diff -puN MAINTAINERS~mec MAINTAINERS
> --- linux-2.4.23-pre7/MAINTAINERS~mec	2003-12-09 09:14:46.321159168
> -0600
> +++ linux-2.4.23-pre7-arashi/MAINTAINERS	2003-12-09 09:22:34.723951120
> -0600
> @@ -455,11 +455,9 @@ M:	Pasztor Szilard <don@itc.hu>
>  S:	Supported
>
>  CONFIGURE, MENUCONFIG, XCONFIG
> -P:	Michael Elizabeth Chastain
> -M:	mec@shout.net
>  L:	kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>  W:	http://kbuild.sourceforge.net
> -S:	Maintained
> +S:	Obsolete
>
>  CONFIGURE.HELP
>  P:	Steven P. Cole
> diff -puN scripts/Menuconfig~mec scripts/Menuconfig
> --- linux-2.4.23-pre7/scripts/Menuconfig~mec	2003-12-09
> 09:25:00.293821136 -0600
> +++ linux-2.4.23-pre7-arashi/scripts/Menuconfig	2003-12-09
> 09:42:53.380963608 -0600
> @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
>  # script.
>  #
>  # William Roadcap was the original author of Menuconfig.
> -# Michael Elizabeth Chastain (mec@shout.net) is the current maintainer.
>  #
>  # 070497 Bernhard Kaindl (bkaindl@netway.at) - get default values for
>  # new bool, tristate and dep_tristate parameters from the defconfig
> file.
> @@ -844,8 +843,9 @@ EOM
>  			sed 's/^/ Q> /' MCerror
>  			cat <<EOM
>
> -Please report this to the maintainer <mec@shout.net>.  You may also
> -send a problem report to <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>.
> +Please report this to your distribution if problems persist after
> +you've upgraded to their latest kernel release. You may also send a
> +problem report to <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>.
>
>  Please indicate the kernel version you are trying to configure and
>  which menu you were trying to enter when this error occurred.
> @@ -906,9 +906,8 @@ You may also need to rebuild lxdialog.
>  the /usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog directory and issuing the
>  "make clean all" command.
>
> -If you have verified that your ncurses install is correct, you may
> email
> -the maintainer <mec@shout.net> or post a message to
> -<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> for additional assistance.
> +If you have verified that your ncurses install is correct, you may post
> +a message to <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> for additional assistance.
>
>  EOM
>  			cleanup
>
> _

I'll add it to my kernels, 
and hopefully Juan will add it to the main MDK kernels...

-- 
Regards

Thomas