From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6411 invoked by alias); 18 Dec 2004 03:11:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 6351 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2004 03:11:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sccrmhc13.comcast.net) (204.127.202.64) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 18 Dec 2004 03:11:34 -0000 Received: from [192.168.181.128] (c-67-176-41-158.client.comcast.net[67.176.41.158]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20041218031133016003iloje>; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 03:11:33 +0000 Message-ID: <41C39FD7.1030307@phy.cmich.edu> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 03:31:00 -0000 From: Eric McDonald User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mark A. Flacy" CC: xconq7 Subject: Re: SDL interface thoughts References: <41A193CE.9000900@phy.cmich.edu> <87zn0cvp5c.fsf@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <87zn0cvp5c.fsf@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01480.txt.bz2 Mark A. Flacy wrote: > You may wish to look at http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ if you > ever were to start creating other distribution's packages for XConq. It > can make RPMs too, for that matter. Looks interesting. I think the way that might prove best for the Xconq project to use it would be: checkinstall rpm -i xconq-common-7.5.0-0pre.0.somedate etc..., to track the installation of RPM packages and generate Slackware and Debian packages from that. Of course, 'alien' can do this in a more direct manner, but I think it requires certain tools, such as 'dpkg' to already be installed. One must be careful to get the right directory structure for each distribution though, and I don't think CheckInstall solves that problem. And it always better to be able to actually test the packages on a native system. Eric