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Re^3: Private Utilities

by Aristotle (Chancellor)
on Dec 01, 2005 at 22:10 UTC ( [id://513452]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: Private Utilities
in thread Private Utilities

Yes. It needs to be run as root, so any files created in the source tree during make install as well as the resultant package tarball are owned by root, which means I can’t move the package, and sometimes cannot blow away the source tree, without root permissions. It also knows nothing of DESTDIR, so you cannot run it with fakeroot, which means make install can wreak havoc at will. (Makefiles that try to register schemata with GConf are always great fun… grr.)

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^4: Private Utilities
by wazoox (Prior) on Dec 02, 2005 at 11:40 UTC
    Well, I use it a lot and I had no problem with it so far, but I admit your script may be better :)

      I didn’t have a problem with it, exactly; and I didn’t say my script is better, exactly; but I know checkinstall, and it doesn’t scratch my itch well enough, which is why I wrote this script. Whether anyone else will find it useful I don’t know; it is a “private utility,” after all.

      Makeshifts last the longest.

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