strange problem with checkinstall and spamassassin

[Tim Wunder]

On 9/25/2003 10:03 AM, someone claiming to be 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?
> 

redhat is the default if checkinstall can't determine the distro. 
There's a way to tell checkinstall (in checkinstallrc or some such? been 
a while since I ran COL :-( ) where tio pt the RPMs, at least there used 
to be. Check the checkinstall home page, there should be a FAQ on it. 
Might have to edit the checkinstall script itself, can't really remember...

HTH,
Tim