On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:41:49AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sat May 24 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > I am updating it with new one. Its draft is here: > > > > http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html#basicprecauti > >ons http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch13.en.html (See > > caution here) > > nice reference, thanks! > and I did install checkinstall and I do install packages using checkinstall. > Sometimes it fails, and a make install works, THEN checkinstall works...
I do not understand your confidence. What do you mean "works". Just because it did not fail, it does not mean it worked right. When you --prefix=/usr/bin , you already over wrote into non /usr/local lcation which is system file location. Just do not do this. I am not user of checkinstall and so I may be wrong on minor details on its use but overwriting system file like you did is sure call for trouble. Checkinstall does not protect system from such brutal act. Checkinstall is designed to install everything under one directory in /usr/local (or possibly under /opt) and remove them cleanly later. With checkinstall, I expects --prefix=/usr/local/gnupg or --prefix=/opt/gnupg to be used. (Please read the manual.) cheers, Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
