Re: [Hplip-help] hplip packaging with checkinstall

2006-07-19 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Jul 18 09:49 dwelch91 wrote (shortened): Eberhard Roloff wrote: However, I consider it to be a good idea to make future hplip versions compatible with checkinstall. ... Indeed, this is a neat tool. It doesn't seem to be installed by default on Ubuntu, though. Is it

Re: [Hplip-help] hplip packaging with checkinstall

2006-07-19 Thread Eberhard Roloff
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:53:47 +0200 (CEST) Johannes Meixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Jul 18 09:49 dwelch91 wrote (shortened): Eberhard Roloff wrote: However, I consider it to be a good idea to make future hplip versions compatible with checkinstall. ... Indeed, this is a

[Hplip-help] hplip packaging with checkinstall

2006-07-18 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hi, I understand that it does not make sense for you to provide distribution specific packages (i.e. rpms for SuSE, RedHat and the like or debs for Debian based Distros). However, I consider it to be a good idea to make future hplip versions compatible with checkinstall. Up to now, any hplip

Re: [Hplip-help] hplip packaging with checkinstall

2006-07-18 Thread Aaron J Albright
Hey Eberhard! I appreciate that you've been so active in the list. I've also been researching checkinstall and it looks very promising. Although I keep having some issues getting the packages to actually install using checkinstall. I'll continue exploring it though. Once it builds and

Re: [Hplip-help] hplip packaging with checkinstall

2006-07-18 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hey Aaron, On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:46:45 -0700 Aaron J Albright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Eberhard! I appreciate that you've been so active in the list. I've also been researching checkinstall and it looks very promising. Although I keep having some issues getting the packages to

Re: [Hplip-help] hplip packaging with checkinstall

2006-07-18 Thread dwelch91
Eberhard Roloff wrote: Hi, I understand that it does not make sense for you to provide distribution specific packages (i.e. rpms for SuSE, RedHat and the like or debs for Debian based Distros). However, I consider it to be a good idea to make future hplip versions compatible with