-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-06-06 at 01:40 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
Philipp Thomas wrote: ...
Checkinstall has been dropped from openSUSE because it doesn't work anymore. Checkinstall's trick is to load a library via LD_PRELOAD that redirects all functions dealing with files. Now for installing a package you need to be root and for programs running with root privileges the dynamic loader ignores LD_PRELOAD as this would otherwise be a huge security problem.
So checkinstall has become useless and was therefore dropped.
Yep, I know, I tried to use it and it failed miserably. "make install" still works.
Obviously. But this way the rpm database is not informed. You may for instance remove something with Yast because you want to use your own compiled version instead, but as you didn't install an rpm with that name, every time you fire YOU it will want to reinstall the missing rpm :-( Plus dependencies problems galore. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFISQGCtTMYHG2NR9URAp+KAJ9PKe3/dtWARuCWZZEy8YXHt3Xd/gCeMlom 37ZdvhoUIRcK43CoTKgDqyk= =eFUW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org