Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (340 mails)

[Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>]

Sid Boyce napsal(a):
> May require submitting a bug.
> Building a RPM package from a tarball will quite often include stuff
> that's already installed, e.g:- I have to give checkinstall options such as
> --exclude
> /lib64/,/usr/bin/gcc,/usr/lib64/gcc/,/lib64/crti.o,/lib64/crtn.o and
> others when I discover with "rpm -qpl xxxx.rpm" that they are included
> in the package.
> Has anyone else noticed this as it has been so for a very long time.
> Noting that every problem I have posted to this list in recent months
> has been met with silence, suggesting that most people install the
> distro and simply run with it as is - see if my luck changes this time.
> Packages such as jack are still at 0.109 while the latest 0.116.2 is
> needed for certain apps like dttsp to work correctly.

You can report a checkinstall bug at bugzilla.novell.com if you like (a
good subject line would be "checkinstall is broken by design" :)), but I
would really suggest creating proper packages manually - if an older
version is already packaged, it should be rather easy.

Michal
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