On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

 |On 15 Feb 2002 at 16:59, Binand Raj S. wrote:
 |> Anyway, I guess that would be an argument against checkinstall. Perhaps
 |> one should take notice of the fact that RedHat/SuSE/Mandrake etc. pay
 |> people to hand build the packages they ship rather than have them built
 |> automatically by checkinstall. ;-)
 |
 |Don't blame checkinstall.. It just traps output of 'make install'. So
 |it's as good as mak install for a particular package goes..

Go ahead try building licq CVS/daily snapshot... and let us know the
results. ;-)

 |And if you are compiling, where is automation left?

in creating the rpm.

 |Checkinstall hasn't has failed on me for more than 30 packages..
 |Postgres etc..  builds nicely..

neither has it on me ... but it built a strange rpm for winex .. included
some tmp files.

But what it does with licq is amazing ;-)

Kingsly


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