On Friday 14 October 2005 10:42 am, Sid Boyce wrote:
Most of the time I use checkinstall as at times the RPM's are either not available or are not the latest available versions. This does not sit well with people who abhor using leading edge, but at times the available RPM's lack some funtionality needed. A case in point -- I've had problems with traceroute sessions kicked off by skype that were consuming 99% CPU and the problem was due to the way down-level traceroute SuSE offers in 9.3 (in 10.0 also I've learned), not only does it consume almost all CPU at the expense of everything else running, it does not work and never ends. Today I've downloaded and installed the latest available traceroute source which works fine, so my next task is to see if I can integrate it into the SuSE net-tools source rpm. With checkinstall, the generated RPM allows you to upgrade "rpm -Uvh
.rpm" and keep your RPM database honest, you can also downgrade back to what you had originally using "rpm -Uvh --oldpackage .rpm". "man rpm" for all the wonderful things you can do. Regards Sid.
Sid, Did you also do a bug report for SUSE 10.x with Novell/SUSE? "Please" if you haven't and "Thanks" if you did. Stan