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On Thursday 21 August 2003 23:57, Philipp Thomas wrote:
Please no! checkinstall is a huge cluge that shouldn't have been written in the first place.
Learn how to make Spec files for RPM, it'll pay off large. Things like supporting more then one version of a distribution can *only* be done in a spec file and in the long run it's easier to maintain a spec file.
It's been a while since I looked at it, but when you roll your own rpm don't you have to know every single file that is going to be installed and where it will be installed? How do you accompolish this? checkinstall has its place. You've downloaded software from source and you want to use it. If you use checkinstall you can be up and running in almost the identical time it takes for ./configure-make-make install and you've kept your package management system in order. Its a no brainer. Of course if you want to make rpms for distribution that is a different matter. Jethro