-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2009-12-08 at 03:14 +0100, Philipp Thomas wrote:
Not FUD! Read http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/why-you-should-not-use-...
Again, thank you for this answer, I appreciate it. Really. This one really shows what the problem with checkinstall is. See? A nice explanation is much better than just shooing people away with barks. And reading that, I have to say that yes, I remember I have seen going into the rpm checkinstall makes some files that are not related at all to the package. It has happened to me. It is the reason why I modified the configuration so that the list of files pop up in an editor, so that I can remove them. I had forgotten that "detail".
Still any questions?
I have a few going round my head... but don't worry, now you have convinced me that there is something quite wrong with checkinstall. But not by design, but by lack of maintenance. Apparently it worked well eight years ago.
BTW, I wished src2pkg could also create RPM packages, then at least I'd have an package that's well maintained upstream.
- From what I read there, they are using a different installwatch library. Another person has suggested (on another list) whether we could fork checkinstall. I don't have the knowledge, but certainly I would like to try to correct some of the problems. Do you think we could adapt the checkinstall script, only for rpms, with installwatch library from the src2pkg people? Could you at least help us with advice? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkseMo8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WBYQCfWLft0ipkpEzqoYE6yjcRIhvn FOsAn1RNvtHloC704LrYBE7OH1pJzCYe =BESf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org