On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 05:40, Philipp Thomas wrote:

Rob Benton [27 Oct 2002 01:34:52 -0700]:

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Any reason Suse is still using rpm 3.0.6 instead like 4.x something?

AFAIK, too many bugs, specially for architectures other then iX86. Our RPM can read the 4.X format so what are you missing?

Philipp

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Ever heard of a program called checkinstall? It's pretty handy. It creates slackware/deb/rpms from the Makefile of a source tarball. It's a giant shell script and one of the commands it uses is rpmbuild which only shows up in rpm 4.x. As near as I can figure 'rpm -bb' will do the same thing in 3.x but I've never run into any problems using rpm 4.x so I was curios.

On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 13:37, Charles Philip Chan wrote:

Circa Sun. Oct. 27, 2002 at 13:32:03 -0800, a lone cry was heard from Rob Benton in the wasteland called the Internet:

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Ever heard of a program called checkinstall? It's pretty handy. It creates slackware/deb/rpms from the Makefile of a source tarball. It's a giant shell script and one of the commands it uses is rpmbuild which only shows up in rpm 4.x. As near as I can figure 'rpm -bb' will do the same thing in 3.x but I've never run into any problems using rpm 4.x so I was curios.

Checkinstall works perfectly with SuSE's rpm 3.x. I have been using it for ages.

Charles

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Joe said it was part of the Suse distro but I couldn't find it on my CDs so I downloaded the generic rpm off their website and it contained a reference to rpmbuild which isn't in rpm 3.0.6.

On Sunday 27 October 2002 22:32, Rob Benton wrote:

Ever heard of a program called checkinstall? It's pretty handy.

Eh? Checkinstall is part of the SuSE distro, and works very well with the RPM version provided by SuSE. I use it all the time as provided by SuSE with 8.0, and now 8.1. Not sure why checkinstall is an argument for having RPM 4.x... Joe