[ale] Cool!!

[Dow Hurst]

Your right about how checkinstall works.  You can query the database and 
pick up your checkinstalled packages in the output.  Maybe the way the 
package is named and the lack of dependency info in the database entry 
is the problem.
Dow


tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:

>On 28 Oct 2003, Ray Knight wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 18:03, Jim Philips wrote:
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>>>On Monday 27 October 2003 08:28 am, James P. Kinney III wrote:
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>>>>On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 01:57, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
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>>>>>On 26 Oct 2003 15:36:06 -0500
>>>>>
>>>>>"James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>>As has been announced here before, the package updater called yum is
>>>>>>seriously fantastic!!
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>Mind giving us a brief overview of what's so great about it?
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Sure. It is configurable to point to any yum archives you want. So I can
>>>>download for one machine and point my others at it inside my network. It
>>>>has much of the upgrade flexibility as apt-get does while working with
>>>>standard RedHat upgrades as well as third-party upgrades. It is command
>>>>line only (only for the moment, I'm sure) so it is easily stuck in a
>>>>cron task or run remotely through an ssh shell.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>So far my main complaint against it is one that I have with other updaters: I 
>>>have packages I compiled from source and Yum insists that these packages are 
>>>out of date and need to be replaced with older versions. The packages were 
>>>made with checkinstall and so far, all of these update programs don't know 
>>>how to deal with that. Can't they just read the version?
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>For the package manager to read the version you need to install the
>>software using the package package manager.  So get the source package,
>>modify it for the new version and source then build and install.  
>>
>>You can't really expect a package manager to know what version you have
>>installed if you install a newer version from source bypassing the
>>package manager.
>>
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>
>Which would be all well and good, but checkinstall uses  RPM to perform 
>the install (or at least my copy of it does) There is a disconnect 
>somewhere in the chain apparently.
>
>Of course, I could easily be wrong, YMMV, and so forth.
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