Resources for “Is Your $HOME a Money, er, Messy Pit?”
November 28th, 2005 by Marcel Gagné in
CheckInstall: checkinstall.izto.org
Concentration (a game for kids): www.shiftygames.com/concentration/concentration.html
KConfigure: kconfigure.sourceforge.net
KInstaller: www.stierand-linuxit.de/kinstaller/index.html
Marcel's Web site (check out the wine page): www.marcelgagne.com
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Kconfigure source rpm build errors
On January 9th, 2006 eager says:
There were some problems building kconfigure from the source rpm.
1) Spec file in SRPM uses %setup -n %{name}-%{version} while the tar file doesn't have a version number. Fix is to remove "-%{version}".
2) Spec file cd's to $HOME just before building the file list. That should be "cd %{buildroot}
3) The spec file references %{distversion} which is probably not set in .rpmrc.
My guess is that the SRPM is not the one used to build the distribution RPM.
Dead link?
On December 6th, 2005 ryddler (not verified) says:
Marcel's link for checkinstall didn't work for me, but google turned up this one: http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/index.php
Keep up the great detective work locating all these timesavers for me ;)