Re: Question about CheckInstall

From: baskitcaise (baskitcaise_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/02/03 

Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 06:21:21 +0100

William Bradley wrote:

> Uli Wachowitz wrote:
>
>> William Bradley <bradleyw@magma.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Does it work with Suse 8.2?
>>
>> What exactly is your question? It works w/o problem in the means of making
>> RPMs.
>
> As I understand it, RPMS can vary. RPMFind.net has all sorts of them for the
> same particular programme. Mandrake, Red Hat etc. What I read about
> checkinstall indicated that it would produce and RPM that will work on
> Debian or Slackware. My question then is, will the RPM that checkinstall
> produces, work on Suse 8.2.
>
> Bill.
>

Yes otherwise they would not have put it on the disk :)

I is configured for Suse rpms out of the box just use instead of "make
install" 

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Mark
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