[opensuse-factory] checkinstall strangeness
May require submitting a bug. Building a RPM package from a tarball will quite often include stuff that's already installed, e.g:- I have to give checkinstall options such as --exclude /lib64/,/usr/bin/gcc,/usr/lib64/gcc/,/lib64/crti.o,/lib64/crtn.o and others when I discover with "rpm -qpl xxxx.rpm" that they are included in the package. Has anyone else noticed this as it has been so for a very long time. Noting that every problem I have posted to this list in recent months has been met with silence, suggesting that most people install the distro and simply run with it as is - see if my luck changes this time. Packages such as jack are still at 0.109 while the latest 0.116.2 is needed for certain apps like dttsp to work correctly. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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May require submitting a bug. Building a RPM package from a tarball will quite often include stuff that's already installed, e.g:- I have to give checkinstall options such as --exclude /lib64/,/usr/bin/gcc,/usr/lib64/gcc/,/lib64/crti.o,/lib64/crtn.o and others when I discover with "rpm -qpl xxxx.rpm" that they are included in the package. Has anyone else noticed this as it has been so for a very long time. Noting that every problem I have posted to this list in recent months has been met with silence, suggesting that most people install the distro and simply run with it as is - see if my luck changes this time. Packages such as jack are still at 0.109 while the latest 0.116.2 is needed for certain apps like dttsp to work correctly.
You can report a checkinstall bug at bugzilla.novell.com if you like (a good subject line would be "checkinstall is broken by design" :)), but I would really suggest creating proper packages manually - if an older version is already packaged, it should be rather easy. Michal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2009-04-22 at 11:30 +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
You can report a checkinstall bug at bugzilla.novell.com if you like (a good subject line would be "checkinstall is broken by design" :)), but I would really suggest creating proper packages manually - if an older version is already packaged, it should be rather easy.
Creating a proper package manually is a task for profesionals, it is not simple. For us plain users the only option is checkinstall. I don't use it to create packages for distribution, but simply to keep YaST happy, and make it easy to uninstall the package. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknvEI4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WHSACfTGUWx2YMJVfzPdH3270IjCHT nvEAoJRbJ8i2gydOhufEsCK/fvPBQJ8a =qMWj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Wednesday, 2009-04-22 at 11:30 +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
You can report a checkinstall bug at bugzilla.novell.com if you like (a good subject line would be "checkinstall is broken by design" :)), but I would really suggest creating proper packages manually - if an older version is already packaged, it should be rather easy.
Creating a proper package manually is a task for profesionals, it is not simple. For us plain users the only option is checkinstall.
I don't use it to create packages for distribution, but simply to keep YaST happy, and make it easy to uninstall the package.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
Same here, so as not to run into serious problems I have seen other suffer after a "make install". I built checkinstall from sources many moons ago and it was more problematical than the one that comes with the distro. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Sid Boyce escribió:
May require submitting a bug.
Yes, however good luck with checkinstall.. my only suggestion is not to use it. -- "If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed" -George Carlin (1937-2008) Cristian Rodríguez R. Software Developer Platform/OpenSUSE - Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development http://www.opensuse.org/
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