Daniel Pittman wrote: <SNIP> > It is also helpful to try and avoid building your own custom packages as > much as possible. In many cases alternatives exist, or waiting for an > upgrade has a longer cost.
<SNIP> > Yes: checkinstall is a good tool for doing this, although the various > 'dh-make-*' packages provide good support for Perl and PHP modules. How can you on the one hand suggest avoiding creating your own custom packages on the one hand and then suggest that checkinstall is a good tool?? Atleast if you create your own you have the opportunity to create a package with some dependencies instead of the "not much better than a tarball" rubbish rpms that checkinstall spits out. -- dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
