Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2008 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 25 April 2009 17:56:53 peby@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > My hack for the above is:
> >
> >   - create each directory it wants, by hand, and rerun checkinstall.

This is a bug in the makefile, not a problem with checkinstall. If you're 
creating an rpm, you don't want to put files in the real file system. Instead, 
you pass an installation root directory to the makefile, using an environment 
variable, and all directories are then supposed to be relative to it.

So if the installation wants to have a directory in the real file system, then 
the makefile needs to be fixed. This would have tripped up rpm too

Incidentally, I don't see how it could ever be checkinstall's problem that a 
directory doesn't get created. This is always the job of the makefile

Anders
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