On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 02:15:06PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 09:18:00AM -0400, Robert Wolfe (Debian) wrote: > > .........snip....... > > > > Viden, I _believe_ that you can still use RPM with Debian as well, > > as long as you use alien to convert the packages between RPM and > > DEB. Also, if you want to build your own packages on a Debian based > > machine, then you can use the checkinstall utility to built both > > RPMs and DEBs without any issues. It's what I use all the time and > > have no problems with it. Not only does it build the binaries and > > make the package files, but it also installs the package for you as > > well. > > I remember reading somewhere (can't find it) that checkinstall didn't > handle dependencies well. Any truth to this? > Last time I used it, checkinstall didn't handle dependencies at all. It just makes a "dumb" package, with the benefit that your package manager is aware of it and it's easy to uninstall (which is not always the case with compiled-from-source software).
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