Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1750 mails)

[Joe Morris <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx>]

On 10/02/2008 07:34 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Thursday 2008-10-02 at 07:11 +0800, Joe Morris wrote:
>
> > > I can manually create that dir (remember that checkinstall runs as
> > > root, in my case via sudo), and the next run it goes a little further,
> > > and fails again with permission denied on another directory create.
> > >
> > > I have two alternatives: create each directory manually, or run "make
> > > install" (as root), followed by "checkinstall".
> > Have you tried to configure the document path in the config file?
>
> What document path?
In /etc/checkinstallrc, i.e. DOC_DIR.  I have mine set to
/usr/share/doc/packages, though I haven't used checkinstall in a few years.
> The checkinstall configuration is the same as it has been for years,
> not changed. The program I'm compiling, same thing, it compiled
> correctly in 10.3. And the paths the rpm contains are correct.
Since I am still using 10.3 here, and it worked last time I tried,
perhaps it is a bug in the 11.0 package. 
-- 
Joe Morris
Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64





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