Checkinstall 1.6.0 finally

[ashrack]

Can anyone tell me why 1.6.0 wasn included already in Dapper, since it was release August 10th, 2005??

[mlind]

Can anyone tell me why 1.6.0 wasn included already in Dapper, since it was release August 10th, 2005??

Maybe because developers have lives too? ;)
(btw. using checkinstall is baad..)

[ashrack]

Checkinstall is pretty sweet for personal use or for sharing DEBS created with CHECKINSTALL to a group of ppl. If the proper way of crating DEB packages would be much much simplified than CHECKINSTALL really wouldnt be neccessary.

[oliverb]

Exactly how baad?

I've got a couple of source tarballs I want to install and I like the idea of being able to uninstall them easily later.

[glennric]

This version from the backports has some problems. It puts a lot of leading spaces in the package information, and then the installation fails because of this. You can change most of the information, except the requirements. If you try to change them it doesn't. The leading spaces then prevent installation from succeeding.

[ashrack]

GLENNRIC
Really?
I haven't had any problems thus far with the CHeckInstall from backports. And I've already compiled over about 7things so far. Thanks for the headsup anyway

[glennric]

GLENNRIC
Really?
I haven't had any problems thus far with the CHeckInstall from backports. And I've already compiled over about 7things so far. Thanks for the headsup anyway

Maybe it is just something wrong with my system. All I know is I get things like

This package will be built according to these values:

0 - Maintainer: [ root@glennric ]
1 - Summary: [ Playable implementation of the Settlers of Catan
Pioneers Client
Pioneers Help
Pioneers AI Player
Pioneers Console Server
Pioneers GTK Server
Pioneers Data
Pioneers Meta Server
Pioneers Game Editor ]
2 - Name: [ pioneers ]
3 - Version: [ 0.10.2 ]
4 - Release: [ 1 ]
5 - License: [ GPL ]
6 - Group: [ Amusements/Games
Amusements/Games
Amusements/Games
Amusements/Games
Amusements/Games
Amusements/Games
Amusements/Games
Amusements/Games
Amusements/Games ]
7 - Architecture: [ i386 ]
8 - Source location: [ pioneers ]
9 - Alternate source location: [ ]
10 - Requires: [ pioneers-server-data
pioneers-server-data
pioneers-server-console
pioneers-client, pioneers-server-data ]

Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue:
I can change numbers 1-9 to get rid of the leading spaces and other wierd things, but I can't change number 10 no matter what I do. Then it fails to build the package.

Edit: It seems that this new version of checkinstall is getting this information from a spec file, and it is not reading the file properly. If I use checkinstall to install software that doesn't have a spec file this doesn't happen.

[ashrack]

send me the source and I will try it tomorrow, if I get the time. Have lots of studying ahead of me/

[glennric]

I have been able to compile this software with the new checkinstall, but I had to remove the spec file.