Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (340 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2009-04-22 at 11:30 +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Creating a proper package manually is a task for profesionals, it is not
> simple. For us plain users the only option is checkinstall.
>
> I don't use it to create packages for distribution, but simply to keep
> YaST happy, and make it easy to uninstall the package.
>
> -- Cheers,
>        Carlos E. R.

Same here, so as not to run into serious problems I have seen other
suffer after a "make install".
I built checkinstall from sources many moons ago and it was more
problematical than the one that comes with the distro.
Regards
Sid.
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