Dear all, I am sick of having to install tar.gz packages and having to wonder every time I had to overwrite something, whether what happened to old files. I want to make sure that now on, whatever goes in my SuSE 8.2 system, it goes in as a .rpm. Suppose I have mplayer-0.90 final with me as a tar.bz2 and my 8.2 system has an rc2 or something. I want to be able to do an rpm -Uvh for this package. And since I want my new mplayer to be able to use libdvdread as well as dvdcss, I want it to ask for these packages also. I feel it would be better way of managing packages. I think that such installation shall also nicely integrate my package back into SuSEs central db on my system. Can you please provide me with definitive rpms? I want to build my own .rpm packages after I have compiled the downloaded sources. This may even be an old question, but please reply anyway. -- Rohit +9122 5692 2108 G9,Floor-1,Chandivali : SDE : TLSI : 9821394599@bplmobile.com The information below is compulsorily added for non-mahindrabt recepients. ********************************************************* Disclaimer This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ********************************************************* Visit us at http://www.mahindrabt.com
* Rohit (rohits@mahindrabt.com) [030624 23:42]:
Can you please provide me with definitive rpms? I want to build my own .rpm packages after I have compiled the downloaded sources. This may even be an old question, but please reply anyway.
If you are compiling your own src code then give the package checkinstall a try. It's pretty good for building RPM's and it comes on the SuSE cd's or you can get it from the ftp site. Once installed .. instead of typing "make install" you type checkinstall and answer the questions. It will build the package for you. :) Cheers! -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail and any attachment is intended for anyone with an email address and does not contain information that is confidential and privileged or that is of any intrinsic value to anyone.
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:08:34AM -0700, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Rohit (rohits@mahindrabt.com) [030624 23:42]:
Can you please provide me with definitive rpms? I want to build my own .rpm packages after I have compiled the downloaded sources. This may even be an old question, but please reply anyway.
If you are compiling your own src code then give the package checkinstall a try. It's pretty good for building RPM's and it comes on the SuSE cd's or you can get it from the ftp site.
Once installed .. instead of typing "make install" you type checkinstall and answer the questions. It will build the package for you. :)
I'll second that. Checkinstall is great :) /Jon -- If we can't be free, at least we can be cheap!
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Ben Rosenberg
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Jon Clausen
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