Re: uninstall

[Austin Isler <a_c_isler verizon net>]

But of course my friend. I recently purchased a book on RPM and how to 
roll my own. :) thank you for your advice anyways.

Austin

Jef Spaleta wrote:

> Prakash Rao wrote:
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> > You might want to look at a program called CheckInstall.
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> Just a quick word of advice. I'd shy away from redistributing the rpms
> produced by checkinstall. Checkinstall is a useful shortcut
> to fill a need when there is not a prebuilt quality rpm that you can
> grab from a repository. But I wouldn't encourage using checkinstall's
> level of automation for package building, when you plan to share the
> packages with other people. Its worth taking the time to learn how to
> package things correctly, if you plan to maintain a package for other
> people to use.
>
> -jef"but it sure is useful when you want to install something locally
> from a tarball just to play around"spaleta 
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