Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (600 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/10/09 17:40, Donn Washburn wrote:
> On 10/19/2009 10:15 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > On 10/19/2009 01:27 AM, Donn Washburn wrote:
> >   
> > > openSuSE 11.2 RC 1
> > >
> > > I see "checkinstall" is still broken.  Something keeps it from writing
> > > in a directory that exist.
> > > /usr/src/packages/BUILDROOT
> > >      
> > I haven't tested it in factory (yet), but in 11.0 I have to run:
> >
> >    make install
> >    checkinstall
> >
> > because the first run creates the directories. If I skip that step,
> > checkinstall fails because it
> > can not create the directories (Bug 432497)
> >
> >    
> Thanks Carlos;
>
> This bug has been out since Beta 8 and is still a problem with RC1.
> I was told by someone else that there is a RPM that fixed it.  But it
> was not available at the URL given.

I don't think this is the bug you reported, the one you reported has to
do with BUILDROOT while this one is the age old one where some packages
not being able to create install directories, so you either have to make
them manually or do "make install" to create them, then do "checkinstall".
Regards
Sid.

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