On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:23:35 +0200, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:

> 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

Hi Henrik,
In blissful ignorance of the changelog entry I installed
checkinstall 1.5.3 from an earlier version of Slackware.
(I saw a post about 1.6 bugs too, hence 1.5.3).
I am happily using it on both Slack 12.0 and a pre12 snapshot of
current from mid May.
Haven't detected any problems at all.
Used it to install about 20 packages (grass + prerequisites) on Slack
12.0, and around 30 packages (grass and vtp + prereqs) on a
pre12 snapshot.
Also used installwatch with MPlayer (which doesn't seem to like to be
checkinstalled since wayback), GoogleEarth, Adobe Reader.
So it seems to me that 1.5.3 is quite happy on Slack 12.
Good Luck,
Peter G