Re: SDL interface thoughts

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>]

Mark A. Flacy wrote:

> You may wish to look at http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ if you
> ever were to start creating other distribution's packages for XConq.  It
> can make RPMs too, for that matter.

Looks interesting.

I think the way that might prove best for the Xconq project to use it 
would be:
  checkinstall rpm -i xconq-common-7.5.0-0pre.0.somedate
etc..., to track the installation of RPM packages and generate Slackware 
and Debian packages from that. Of course, 'alien' can do this in a more 
direct manner, but I think it requires certain tools, such as 'dpkg' to 
already be installed.

One must be careful to get the right directory structure for each 
distribution though, and I don't think CheckInstall solves that problem. 
And it always better to be able to actually test the packages on a 
native system.

Eric