On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 14:50:30 +0100 (CET), you wrote:
I created a bugzilla with the solution to this. Just a word change in checkinstall. "Broken by design", and a single word change solves it? Wow.
What's broken by design is the idea that the author of a given software package has an idea how a sane system should look like, leave alone the differences in different linux distributions. Some do, some act like "all the world is Redhat/Fedora based" while still others just don't care and tell you nonsense like "install the tarball and then run script xy to adapt your system to my idea of an installation". Such broken packages require manual intervention. But the worst thing about checkinstall is that its author doesn't care and for years has only integrated patches others sent him if he did anything at all! The code to support the *at() functions has been in checkinstall CVS for over half a year without anything happening. Authors that care about their software and its users act differently! BTW, Fedora already dropped checkinstall AFAICT. I don't use checkinstall at all and thus have no need for it and as upstream maintenance is nearly nonexisting, the fixes I've checked into OBS today is the last thing I will do for the package. I'll file a drop request and will stop maintaining the package. If anybody wants to use it: the sources are in the OBS. And Carlos, if you say you have no time look at Sascha Manns who started building packages with nearly no knowledge at all and mastered it (more or less :)! And he's no developer! Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org