27 Oct
2002
27 Oct
'02
22:37
Circa Sun. Oct. 27, 2002 at 13:32:03 -0800, a lone cry was heard from
Rob Benton
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 -- "...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)." (By Matt Welsh)