On 2017-03-08 13:57, Freek de Kruijf wrote:
Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 12:50:20 CET schreef Carlos E. R.:
On 2017-03-08 09:21, Chan Ju Ping wrote:
I was trying to install checkinstall but the installation kept failing. It appears the official rpms have been removed.
https://software.opensuse.org/package/checkinstall?search_term=checkinstal
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Is there any reason why checkinstall is no longer available? I
figured now would be a good time to put in place better software building and installing practices, and this would be a good place to start.
Well, apparently the maintainers use OBS and tell everybody to use OBS, and thus neglect checkinstall to force others to also use OBS.
So now I have to use "make install" directly on my systems without creating the rpm. :-(
When you have a tar file with the source and you design a .spec file, which is not too difficult, on your own system, you can use rpmbuild to build a rpm.
Well, designing a .spec file is something I do not know how to do, it is quite difficult for me. That is precisely what checkinstall automated. Thus, rpmbuild is impossible to use, and even less OBS, wich I find terribly complex. See? You are trying to convince me to use OBS instead ;-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" (Minas Tirith))