SxS Distro?

[Marianne Taylor]

On June 2, 2002 02:26 am, you wrote:
> On Saturday 01 June 2002 08:45 pm, you wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 1. Juni 2002 04:20 schrieb Keith Antoine:
> >
> > There is a somewhat hidden rpm target in the kernel source Makefile of v.
> > 2.4.18. When compiling the kernel, try
> > 	make xconfig rpm
> > which gives you an installable kernel rpm (with modules).
> > Klaus
>
> It isn't often these days to say that I am impressed, but I am. The pointer
> you gave me was absolutely spot-on, and I am now the posessor of a
> suprisingly easily made kernel installable rpm for Caldera 3.1.1......
> Many thanks, all i need is to get xfree4.2 done and kde-3.0.1 and I am
> home. They will not be as easy.

When using checkinstall to make the rpms for XFree 4.2 you need to use the no 
strip option. (--strip=no)  Otherwise should work 
as advertised.  I haven't done  KDE 3.01 yet!

See the FAQ's on the checkinstall site or checkinstall --help.

-- 
Marianne Taylor