From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12302 invoked by uid 1002); 3 Jan 2003 21:57:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 18933 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2003 21:57:49 -0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Path: not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 22:55:31 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Message-ID: <84adihkiek.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:z8nbgFcliY6YWgl5fUDQvrQ5+MQ= Sender: news Subject: [gentoo-dev] Portage idea: use checkinstall? X-Archives-Salt: a2656a19-b9ed-4b09-8238-0b57e782cc1e X-Archives-Hash: 828b9079550d359a9f9a4b4df7002e36 I notice that people have to specify a target directory for installation and to make sure that files are installed in the correct location. I wonder if it might be useful to allow using checkinstall or installwatch or something like this to remove this need? It might not always be easy to specify a target directory for installation. (I'm currently using checkinstall to build a Debian package for the VMware kernel modules so that colleagues don't have to run vmware-config.pl. I'm looking for a replacement for that happy day when our working group switches to Gentoo.) -- Ambibibentists unite! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list