-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm not a Linux programmer, although some time ago I made my living programming. Now and then I install things from the tgz. I know that the best way to create rpms is to create the appropiate spec file, but as I only want the rpm to keep the rpm database happy, and not to distribute them, I haven't bothered to learn how. Some day, perhaps O:-) But I'm having a problem with checkinstall: it doesn't create well the "Provides:" and "Requires:" lines, they are incorrect or empty. For example, a run with balsa: sudo /usr/sbin/checkinstall --arch=i686 \ --pkggroup=Productivity/Networking/Email/Clients \ --pkgaltsource=http://balsa.gnome.org/ ... 10 - Provides: [ ] <============== 11 - Requires: [ ] <============== ... Copyright: GPL Packager: checkinstall-1.6.0beta3 Group: Productivity/Networking/Email/Clients BuildRoot: /home/cer/compilaciones/balsa-2.3.3/buildroot Provides: balsa Requires: ,/bin/sh <============== Obviously, that gives problem when installing the rpm. I don't know if the problem only happens for me, or it is generalised. It happened with my SuSE 9.1 and now with 9.3, for all my runs of checkinstall. Ideas? P.S. I did ask about this in SLE. No answer. I hope it is not considered O.T. here. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFCrsmBtTMYHG2NR9URAjIbAJ4iamNOC2cZSEINF1mgZgwbz+sf3ACdEtyr WG+s2Tl9+t9Evehfd0PI08Y= =50IR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----