rpm cannot be installed

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 23:42 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> On 2/20/06, Colin J Thomson <colin at g6avk.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > I have just created a rpm of dvipdfmx with checkinstall. However, when
> > > I try to install it, I get the following:
> > >
> > > # rpm -ihv dvipdfmx-20050831-1.i386.rpm
> > > Preparing...                ###########################################
> > > [100%] 1:dvipdfmx               ###########################################
> > > [100%] error: unpacking of archive failed on file
> > > /selinux/context;43fa40de: cpio: open failed - Permission denied
> > > #
> >
> > Yep.. add this to your /usr/local/lib/checkinstall/checkinstallrc
> >
> > # Comma delimited list of files/directories to be ignored
> > EXCLUDE="/selinux"
> >
> > It's worth studying this rc file, it has some hand features :)
> 
> Thanks, Colin. It is strange that I have two rc files:
> 
> # locate checkinstallrc
> /usr/lib/checkinstall/checkinstallrc~
> /usr/lib/checkinstall/checkinstallrc
> /usr/lib/checkinstall/checkinstallrc-dist
The above would likely have been installed by an rpm.

> /usr/local/lib/checkinstall/checkinstallrc~
> /usr/local/lib/checkinstall/checkinstallrc
This one likely installed by compiling.

Having 2 different versions of _anything_ installed is asking for
trouble to pop up when least expected.

Why did you compile checkinstall when it is available as rpm?