SxS Distro?

[Marianne Taylor]

On my linux from scratch system, I had to change the "topdir" in 
/usr/lib/rpm/macro and that got it to work.  I think I did the same thing on 
Caldera, but I can't remember.  You might want to try that.


On June 2, 2002 08:15 pm, you wrote:
> On Monday 03 June 2002 07:56 am, you wrote:
> > Marianne Taylor spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> > > 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!
> >
> > I *HIGHLY* recommend you edit checkinstallrc and turn stripping OFF
> > permanently. You never know when it's going to bite you in the arse
>
> There was only one instance, STRIP_ELF, which I turned off, =0. One thing
> that would help is that it keeps asking where the source dir is
> (usr/src/OpenLinux). How can I tell it where it is so as I do not have to
> keep typing it in. Tried
> # Storage directory for newly created packages
> # By default they will be stored at the default
> # location fot the package type
>
> PAK_DIR="/usr/src/OpenLinux"
>
> but still asks.

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Marianne Taylor