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: 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.