Eberhard Roloff wrote: > Hi, > > I understand that it does not make sense for you to provide > distribution specific packages (i.e. rpms for SuSE, RedHat > and the like or debs for Debian based Distros). > > However, I consider it to be a good idea to make > future hplip versions compatible with checkinstall. Up to now, > any hplip tarball failed to build with checkinstall, at least in > my experience-
Could you provide some info on what goes wrong? Error messages, etc. I would at least like to figure out why we don't work with it. > > If this would work, it would be the easiest thing for any hplip > user to build her own package for her distribution, > simplifying the never ending installation or reinstall or > deinstall procedure of hplip. > > Just "configure=>make=>checkinstall" instead of the wellknown > rule of three > "configure=>make=>make install" > > FYI this is checkinstalls homepage: > http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ > > Linux Magazine on checkinstall: > http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/47/Charly_Column.pdf > > Just an idea > Any feedback will be appreciated. > Indeed, this is a neat tool. It doesn't seem to be installed by default on Ubuntu, though. Is it installed/available on all the various distros out there (Mandriva, Fedora, SUSE, etc, etc)? One problem we have is that we support virtually all distros that have the basic set of requirements that we need (libusb, gcc, etc), so relying on a Debian specific tool (or a tool only easily installed on Debian) would be an issue. We have to add dependencies very carefully so as to not lock any users our of our solution. By the way, the checkinstall info says that it was primarily written because packages don't support 'make unisntall' - we actually do. Its not clear to me whether it works 100%, but it should be pretty close. So, even if we can't get checkinstall to work, at least there is that. :-) > Thanks much for your help We appreciate your feedback. -Don > > Eberhard > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ HPLIP-Help mailing list HPLIP-Help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hplip-help
