[ale] linus doesn't like Debian?

[Jim Lynch]

Jim Philips wrote:
> On Thursday 23 August 2007 07:50:03 am Paul Cartwright wrote:
>   
>> On Thursday 23 August 2007 06:44:37 am Geoffrey wrote:
>>     
>>>> I did think that it was a very interesting read, though.  I have to
>>>> wonder what he sees in an RPM-based distribution, because from my
>>>> experience they require quite a bit more hands-on, low-level
>>>> maintenance than Debian based systems do (at least the package manager
>>>> does).
>>>>         
>>> When was the last time you looked at an rpm distro?  'rpm hell' is a
>>> thing of the past.
>>>       
>> hmmm, what about installing packages from source. Without using
>> checkinstall ( NOT part of the standard package) your database doesn't know
>> about any source packages.. And I use checkinstall, but I've even had
>> problems making it work on some packages.
>>     
>
> I have had some problems using checkinstall on Ubuntu recently. It fails 
> because supposedly the package required it to replace something fundamental 
> like ld. The only thing I can guess is that the developer did something 
> sloppy with the Makefile. It only happens with some programs. Katapult was a 
> recent example.
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The problem is with another program he uses to sense what changed.  I 
think there is a fix in the works, in the mean time, you can give 
checkinstall an option that will let you edit the files that he's going 
to include and take out things like mv, ld etc.

Jim