strange problem with checkinstall and spamassassin

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, M.W. Chang wrote:
> I was trying to install Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60 from tarball.
> Perl Makefile.PL
> make
> checkinstall
>
> I ran into this error:
>
> Installing RPM package... FAILED!
>
> *** Failed to install the package
>
> Do you want to see the log file?  [y]:
> error: cannot open file
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60-1.i386.
> rpm: No such file or directory
>
> why would there be a "redhat" word when I am using caldera OpenLinux system?

Perhaps a bug in checkinstall?  Or maybe a funky bug in spamassassin?  did
spamassassin include a spec file?

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