On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 05:28:51PM +0200, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> On 2006-05-04 17:07:13 +0200, houghi wrote:
> > > but writing spec files is not rocket sience.
> > > see http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Build_Tutorial
> >
> > It might be overkill if you just want to check out a program. I only use
> > it for programs that I want to distribute to others.
>
> normally you will compile it 1-2 times. than it is nice to have a script
> to have reproducable results. furthermore it is nice to be able to
> uninstall cleanly.
That is the reason I wrote that 'script'. You could even put it in an
alias. The checkinstall I just put there so that if I want to try out the
program later again, I can use YaST to reinstall it.
> and hacking up a dirty minimal spec file doesnt take you much longer
> than without it.
It does for me.
houghi
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