[CLUE-Talk] Bruce Peren's talk

[Jed S. Baer]

On 08 Oct 2003 23:30:18 -0600
"Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier" <jzb at dissociatedpress.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 22:59, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> 
> > As I find myself building more from source, I find it harder to keep
> > using an RPM-based distribution, although I could also extend the same
> > thinking to debs, I suppose. But I note that I don't believe I'll ever
> > really want to build things such as XFree and glibc from source (I
> > might change my mind if I get around to trying Gentoo). It's nice to
> > have packages for the base system stuff. When I build from source,
> > it's because I've found the packager's choice of configure options to
> > be sub-optimal.
> 
> You might try Checkinstall:
> http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8472/ur0307f/
> 
> It allows you to create a package at the same time you're compiling from
> source, and it's pretty easy to install and use. It does RPMs, debs and
> Slackware packages -- on the respective systems, or with the appropriate
> software installed. For example, it can't create Debian packages on a
> Red Hat system without dpkg and such installed.

Oooh. That's nifty. Sounds like something Jeff O. and I could make use of
for the CLUE server possibly.

Thanks,
jed

-- 
... it is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday
facilitate a police state. -- Bruce Schneier