I have started some initial experimenting with Slackware 12 and really
miss checkinstall. From the changelog:

-8<----------------------------------------------------------
extra/checkinstall/: This had to be removed because it does not work with
the latest coreutils. There is a readme in this directory with the
URL to checkinstall's homepage, so if you must use checkinstall
poll the site periodically to see if a version comes out that fixes
this issue.
extra/slacktrack/slacktrack-1.32-i486-1.tgz: Merged the newest version.
Note that this works, but must touch all the files on the system.
This is because installwatch.so does not work with the newest
coreutils. However, a new version will probably be created soon
that does, so check the slacktrack page (or here, on ftp sites) for
possible full-functionality upgrades.
-8<----------------------------------------------------------

I know that Slackware 11 shipped with checkinstall 1.6.0 in extra, but
because of some bugs I have prefered to use checkinstall 1.5.3 which was
included in older versions of Slackware.

I took the checkinstall source with the slackbuild script from the
Slackware 10.2 CDs and tried to install it on Slackware 12. From my tests
so far checkinstall 1.5.3 seems to work fine on Slackware 12. What were
the problems with checkinstall and installwatch? What problems should I
look for when evaluating checkinstall 1.5.3 on Slackware 12?

regards Henrik

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