[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Douglas J Hunley wrote: > % Tim Wunder babbled on about: > % > Is it anything like Checkinstall? I was reading a little about that today. > % > It's supposed to allow you to use rpm to keep track of things you install > % > via tarball. Anyone on list use it? > % > % I use checkinstall all the time! wouldn't admin a box without it. > % HOWEVER, make sure you edit it's checkinstallrc to NOT strip executables. it > % will mess up certain things otherwise.. > > It certainly ruins debugging, but a lot of corporate IT shops strip > executables as a matter of policy (such as making reverse engineering > more difficult). > > K >
Erm, pardon my ignorance, but what's "strip executables" mean? _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
