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From: Henrik Carlqvist on 23 Jan 2010 03:04 smitty(a)home.com wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:11:58 +0100, Henrik Carlqvist wrote: >> Unfortunately checkinstall has had some problems with the 1.6 versions. >> In my experience version 1.5.3 was far more reliable. However, I >> haven't tried checkinstall version 1.6.2 which was released only about >> a month ago. > It doesn't work on my system.. Any better than 1.6. I won't make the > package, that's why I'm checking out makepkg. If so it might be worth checking out verion 1.5.3 of checkinstall. I know that it works fine with Slackware up to and including 12.2, but I haven't tried it with Slackware 13 yet. Checkinstall 1.5.3 can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/extra/checkinstall or any Slackware mirror of your choice. regards Henrik -- The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is: hc3(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers: root(a)localhost postmaster(a)localhost
From: geep on 23 Jan 2010 16:15 On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:04:09 +0100, Henrik Carlqvist wrote: > smitty(a)home.com wrote: >> On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:11:58 +0100, Henrik Carlqvist wrote: >>> Unfortunately checkinstall has had some problems with the 1.6 >>> versions. In my experience version 1.5.3 was far more reliable. >>> However, I haven't tried checkinstall version 1.6.2 which was released >>> only about a month ago. > >> It doesn't work on my system.. Any better than 1.6. I won't make the >> package, that's why I'm checking out makepkg. > > If so it might be worth checking out verion 1.5.3 of checkinstall. I > know that it works fine with Slackware up to and including 12.2, but I > haven't tried it with Slackware 13 yet. Checkinstall 1.5.3 can be > downloaded from > ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/extra/checkinstall > or any Slackware mirror of your choice. > > regards Henrik Hi Henrik & group, To get checkinstall 1.5.3 to work on Slack 13.0 and Slack Current you need to edit: Edit /usr/sbin/checkinstall on lines 1419 and 1421. Change ${SLACK_PKG_BASENAME} to ../${SLACK_PKG_BASENAME} (This is due to changes in makepkg - it now won't let you create a package in the current working directory - it complains with: "ERROR: Can't make output package in current directory.") It will then work fine. I have just been using it on Slack Current. Cheers, Peter
From: Martin Schmitz on 23 Jan 2010 17:59
Henrik Carlqvist wrote: > For ill-behaving software there is a program called checkinstall that > is able to create packages by tracking what happens when you do "make > install" or any other command to install software. src2pkg is much better than checkinstall. http://www.src2pkg.net/ Martin |