5 Feb
2006
5 Feb
'06
04:21
On Saturday 04 February 2006 22:23, Mike McMullin wrote:
Just curious about this. If the OP were to go and repeat the process with "checkinstall" and then install the resulting RPM, would that not over write the originally installed files, allowing them to be removed by removing the new RPM?
Hi Mike, That's the idea... and why I wrote this: :-)
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 20:58 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote:
if it successfully builds, repeat the process with "checkinstall" in place of "make install". Then you install the rpm it creates to keep the rpm database consistent *and* you can later easily uninstall the software with rpm or YaST.
regards, - Carl