Program Suggestion (also Re: checkinstall (mentioned inmeeting))

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

RedHat has some sort of rollback to RPM.  I read about it in Linux
Journal.  You have to execute extra command parameters at app.
install-time.  There is a database that is kept of the changes and
locations of files.




-----Original Message-----
From:  Behalf Of Leo Mauler


The link appears to be broken.

Since we can't get to the link, does "make package
from source" mean that you are recompiling the source
code for the application?  If so, then I'd much rather
have my idea about an installer "wrapper" implemented
as I really don't feel like recompiling OpenOffice.org
from source just to get an uninstaller
script/application.  I'd much rather have an
application that recorded the changes to the system
and then either told you what they were or provided a
convenient uninstaller script, or both.

--- "Sexton, Kyle" <ksexton at gsihosting.com> wrote:

> For those who were interested in Check Install that
> I mentioned in the meeting, the URL is
> http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/.  
> From the website which describes it better than 
> I can:
> 
> "CheckInstall will create a Slackware, RPM or 
> Debian compatible package and install it with 
> Slackware's installpkg, "rpm -i" or Debian's 
> "dpkg -i" as appropriate, so you can view it's 
> contents with pkgtool ("rpm -ql" for RPM users 
> or "dpkg -l" for Debian) or remove it with 
> removepkg ("rpm -e"|"dpkg -r")."
> 
> It does this from your source packages.