On Monday 03 June 2002 03:04 pm, you wrote:
> On Sunday 02 June 2002 11:15 pm, Keith Antoine wrote:
> > On Monday 03 June 2002 07:56 am, you wrote:
> > > Marianne Taylor spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> > > > When using checkinstall to make the rpms for XFree 4.2 you need to
> > > > use the no strip option. (--strip=no) Otherwise should work
> > > > as advertised. I haven't done KDE 3.01 yet!
> > >
> > > I *HIGHLY* recommend you edit checkinstallrc and turn stripping OFF
> > > permanently. You never know when it's going to bite you in the arse
> >
> > There was only one instance, STRIP_ELF, which I turned off, =0. One thing
> > that would help is that it keeps asking where the source dir is
> > (usr/src/OpenLinux). How can I tell it where it is so as I do not have to
> > keep typing it in. Tried
> > # Storage directory for newly created packages
> > # By default they will be stored at the default
> > # location fot the package type
> >
> > PAK_DIR="/usr/src/OpenLinux"
> >
> > but still asks.
>
> Edit the checkinstall script. Add OpenLinux manually:
> # Find out the RPM source directory path
>
> if ! [ "$RPMSOURCEDIR" ]; then
> RPMSOURCEDIR="NOT-FOUND"
> for directory in packages redhat RedHat rpm RPM OpenLinux "" ; do
> [ -d /usr/src/${directory}/SOURCES ] &&
> RPMSOURCEDIR="/usr/src/${directory}"
> done
> fi
>
> HTH,
> Tim
Thanks I'll try this too.
--
Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161
Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage
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