Am Donnerstag, den 08.12.2005, 22:31 -0600 schrieb Felipe Sanchez: > Well, the first thing that would be useful to know is exactly what > options did you use the last time you ran checkinstall. It would be really > useful for trying to figure out what actually happened to your system. > Please send it ;-)
Well, I did not use any command line parameters with checkinstall. When I got asked for a package description I simply typed 'JRE', the package name was 'fabian' and I changed the version number to '1.5', because 'dpkg' wants it to be a number. That's what I *guess* to be the latest settings. As I stated before, the errors occured when I wanted to get back from root to a normal user. So there have been some minutes running 'dpkg -c' and 'dpkg -I' and similar to test the package... After some googling I found out that there are people who had the same problem after using checkinstall. German Debian Forum: <http://beta.debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51830> Ubuntu Forum: <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=54147> In the German forum the user tells that he tried to cancel checkinstall via 'ctrl+c' because he forgot to set some settings. Same for me! I also remember I have canceled one (or more) of the several checkinstall runs beacuse I entered wrong settings accidentally (e.g. non-digit version number, 'yes' to include temporary files from home dir, etc.). I guess that is where the bug hides! Wehen you cancel checkinstall at the wrong point, some restrictions are not set back?! > The second thing is, the other week I wanted to delete a file from my > system. I had some trouble doing it. So I played with some of the options > of the rm program and suddenly my system became completely unstable! Upon > examination and after a lot of work I found out that the thing had removed > half of the files of my system! Well, I understand what you are going to tell me, BUT: 'rm' is a program to delete files, 'checkinstall' is not a program to set permissions. I would never send a bug report to the 'chmod' maintainer because I accidentelly set my filesystem's permissions to 700 myself! And, as I stated before, I did not use different options that touch checkinstall, but played around with settings like package description, version, etc... > The moral of the story: I agree with you, it MUST be guaranteed that no > program leaves your system in such a state. I.e. don't mess with your > system! > > But if the program's job IS to actually mess with the system (rm, > checkinstall, installwatch, etc) then all you can do is to educate the > user about it's proper use and do your best to avoid putting too much bugs > in ;-) Let's try to find out what the bug is and remove it...;) Nice Greetings, Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]