uninstall
Austin Isler
a_c_isler at verizon.net
Thu Jan 29 00:53:05 UTC 2004
But of course my friend. I recently purchased a book on RPM and how to
roll my own. :) thank you for your advice anyways.
Austin
Jef Spaleta wrote:
>Prakash Rao wrote:
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>>You might want to look at a program called CheckInstall.
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>Just a quick word of advice. I'd shy away from redistributing the rpms
>produced by checkinstall. Checkinstall is a useful shortcut
>to fill a need when there is not a prebuilt quality rpm that you can
>grab from a repository. But I wouldn't encourage using checkinstall's
>level of automation for package building, when you plan to share the
>packages with other people. Its worth taking the time to learn how to
>package things correctly, if you plan to maintain a package for other
>people to use.
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>-jef"but it sure is useful when you want to install something locally
>from a tarball just to play around"spaleta
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