Re: make uninstall

2001-12-20 Thread Terence McCarthy
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 23:54, Tim Wunder wrote: I haven't yet tried it out, but here's where you can get it: http://freshmeat.net/releases/65197/ Is it anything like Checkinstall? Anyone on list use it? Yes, I do (SuSE 7.2)- it works well as far as I can tell, with the RPM

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-20 Thread Tim Wunder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Douglas J Hunley wrote: % Tim Wunder babbled on about: % Is it anything like Checkinstall? I was reading a little about that today. % It's supposed to allow you to use rpm to keep track of things you install % via tarball. Anyone on list use it? % % I use

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-20 Thread kwall
Tim Wunder wrote: [clip] % Erm, pardon my ignorance, but what's strip executables mean? Remove unneeded symbols from binaries. man strip should help. Kurt -- Hatred, n.: A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-20 Thread Douglas J Hunley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled on about: It certainly ruins debugging, but a lot of corporate IT shops strip executables as a matter of policy (such as making reverse engineering more difficult). I routinely strip the files on my system. however, the method that checkinstall uses to determine

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-20 Thread Tim Wunder
Douglas J Hunley wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled on about: It certainly ruins debugging, but a lot of corporate IT shops strip executables as a matter of policy (such as making reverse engineering more difficult). I routinely strip the files on my system. however, the method that

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-20 Thread Net Llama
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Wunder wrote: [clip] % Erm, pardon my ignorance, but what's strip executables mean? Remove unneeded symbols from binaries. man strip should help. Hopefully, Kurt won't mind if i expand a wee bit on this. Quite often, programmers compile binaries with

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-20 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Tim Wunder babbled on about: What version of Checkinstall? I'm wondering if it's a known issue that's been fixed. Current version is 1.5.0, released November 18th. The release notes don't mention anything explicitly, but not all changes make it to the release notes. I'm using 1.5.0.. but I

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-20 Thread kwall
References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 10:16:41AM -0800 Net Llama wrote: % --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % % Remove unneeded symbols from binaries. man strip should help. % % Hopefully, Kurt won't mind

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-19 Thread Tim Wunder
Previously, Net Llama chose to write: I just noticed this project on Freshmeat called make uninstall. It does exactly as its name describes, allows you to cleanly uninstall packages that have been installed via the make install command. I haven't yet tried it out, but here's where you can

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-19 Thread Aaron Grewell
, Net Llama chose to write: I just noticed this project on Freshmeat called make uninstall. It does exactly as its name describes, allows you to cleanly uninstall packages that have been installed via the make install command. I haven't yet tried it out, but here's where you can get

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-19 Thread kwall
Net Llama wrote: % I just noticed this project on Freshmeat called make uninstall. It % does exactly as its name describes, allows you to cleanly uninstall % packages that have been installed via the make install command. % % I haven't yet tried it out, but here's where you can get it: % http

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-19 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Tim Wunder babbled on about: Is it anything like Checkinstall? I was reading a little about that today. It's supposed to allow you to use rpm to keep track of things you install via tarball. Anyone on list use it? I use checkinstall all the time! wouldn't admin a box without it. HOWEVER, make

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-19 Thread kwall
Douglas J Hunley wrote: % Tim Wunder babbled on about: % Is it anything like Checkinstall? I was reading a little about that today. % It's supposed to allow you to use rpm to keep track of things you install % via tarball. Anyone on list use it? % % I use checkinstall all the time! wouldn't