Mitch Maltenfort on Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:21:50 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] checkinstall


> checkinstall was discussed on Slashdot a few days ago.
> 
> As I have a rather weak grasp of how rpm works, and no grasp at all of how
> dpkg works, I can't tell how likely this is to work reliably.
> Has anyone else used this?
> 


Me.  I prefer to install from tarball, but I like the RPM options of total
uninstalls and of knowing which files are installed by a given project and
where they went.

I haven't had any reason to complain about checkinstall yet.

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