Got checkinstall, tried it with gcombust and, after a few stumbles on my part, worked like a charm. I have 2 questions, though.
1. Checkinstall by default not only creates the rpm, it installs it. the rc file does "--force --nodeps --replacepackages." I can change that, of course, but I can't find an option that would not install at all, but simply make the rpm file. There will be programs for which I don't have the necessary libs, or whatever. Running "rpm -ivh" would tell me that. Am I missing something very obvious here? 2. What does checkinstall do that installing an i386 rpm wouldn't? So I tell it that my architecture is "i686" - what does that do, exactly? Some program may demand a lib ">=" to some number; I have a lower one. How will I run that program after checkinstall does its "--force --nodeps -- replacepackages" bit? In short, how does checkinstall "conform" the program to my system? Thanks. -- Ed Jabbour "Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." --Flannery O'Connor _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
