[Xapian-discuss] Re: Debian Package Installation

Fabrice Colin fabrice.colin at gmail.com
Sat Jan 7 08:50:55 GMT 2006


> From: Jim Lynch <jim at fayettedigital.com>
> I use checkinstall to take source packages, xxx.tar.gz, and generate RPM
> or DEB from them.  It doesn't do any prerequsites or dependency
> handling, I don't think, but it gives me a way to uninstall if need be
> and a DEB or RPM to use on other systems if necessary.  To use it you do
> the config, make and install steps, then run checkinstall.  It does
> another install and senses the files that were installed and builds a
> binary RPM from that.
>
Just out of curiosity, do the checkinstall-built RPMs work better for you
than the RPMs I build ?

Fabrice



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