On 6/9/05, Dean Michael Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: or source distributions? > > > > i use checkinstall[1] to create my mandrake rpms. you basically > > replace the "make install" step with checkinstall. :D > > > Neat indeed! No need for spec files? I was reading through the RPM > HOWTO, but then I got turned off at the thought of having to create my > own spec files... > > Is this a sure fire thing? Or would you need to do a lot of hocus pocus > to get things going right? >
checkinstall assumes that your tarball accepts the make install PREFIX=/something. If you have a weird program package (e.g. gnuplot in the version 3.8xx series), you need a lot of hocus pocus. just look at slackware's buildscript for gnuplot before gnuplot v4.0 but most OSS tarballs use the standard auto* tools anyway. I also use checkinstall for quick creation of slackware packages -- Allan M. Espinosa http://www.freepgs.com/yecartes/wiki.pl _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
