"Stuart" == Stuart Winter <not.a.real.address@interlude.org.uk> writes:

Stuart> On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:23:35 +0200,
Stuart> Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com wrote:

>> What were the problems with checkinstall and installwatch? What
>> problems should I look for when evaluating checkinstall 1.5.3 on
>> Slackware 12?

Stuart> If you use coreutils utilities such as chown, chmod,
Stuart> installwatch cannot track the changes made by them because it
Stuart> has not been updated to handle the new at-style functions that
Stuart> glibc 2.5 is providing.

I use checkinstall in the simplest possible way. I download the source
for some program, configure, make, checkinstall make install, and then
install the package. Do these problems affect me? I just want to be able
to remove the program cleanly if need be. Also, is there a problem using
1.6.1?

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Jim Kalb