-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-04-29 at 21:53 +0200, lists Guillot wrote:
I'm going to follow your advice. Johannes intimated above that checkinstall has a bad reputation,
Absolutely not!
and you also don't seem to think too highly of it with your "(at least)". So what would be a good tool for this? I see that I have rpmbuild on my system so I'm tempted to use that, though the man page is not exactly a detailed instructions manual.
You can use checkinstall with an absolutely clear conscience, there is nothing wrong with it. It is just that, if you intend to later distribute rpms outside, you'd better do them manually with full control of them. If you just want to install packages you compiled yourself, it is perfect. The only people talking bad about checkinstall are those people that invested the necessary time and effort to make rpms manually - ie, developers and packagers - and for the simple reason that checkinstall is automatic, instead of manual, fine grained, full control. Or would you stop using konqueror because the command line offers more control? Or stop using OpenOffice and write your documents in latex with vi? Fine tools, of course, but not for mere mortals :-P - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGNPygtTMYHG2NR9URAg5LAJ9Zq9J2izFD+ipq5Y/gB5qwMeaq0wCdGoqy OGVAR47k+wG6woSP53d7Ql4= =AR2m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org