On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 05:28:51PM +0200, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
On 2006-05-04 17:07:13 +0200, houghi wrote:
but writing spec files is not rocket sience. see http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Build_Tutorial
It might be overkill if you just want to check out a program. I only use it for programs that I want to distribute to others.
normally you will compile it 1-2 times. than it is nice to have a script to have reproducable results. furthermore it is nice to be able to uninstall cleanly.
That is the reason I wrote that 'script'. You could even put it in an alias. The checkinstall I just put there so that if I want to try out the program later again, I can use YaST to reinstall it.
and hacking up a dirty minimal spec file doesnt take you much longer than without it.
It does for me. houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau