Am Mi, den 16.06.2004 schrieb Didier Casse um 11:49:
Thanks André. This is the type of thing that I've been looking
for. This
will simplify my life. :-)
Yes it is a nice tool. I use it for some programs I build from CVS (sim
amarok) and other stuff that isn't available as a RPM package. It work
very well on my box, but you always have to keep in mind that those
auto-generated packages are in most cases not portable to other boxes.
It looks like checkinstall uses ldd to determine the dependencies of a
lib or executable, which is a good idea but fails wen you have the
nvidia-drivers installed, because checkinstall always creates packages
that depend on libs which are provided by the drivers. Checkinstall is
IMHO a one-host or one-system solution to keep your system clean, but it
isn't an automatic RPM-build solution for packages to give away to
others.
Cheers,
Didier.
André