On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 01:05 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 04:53:26AM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > > I'm running FC3. I have a couple of programs that are not available as > > > rpms that I had to install from source. I was just wondering if there is > > > a way to register them so that, for example, rpm -q myprogram would give > > > correct results. Does anyone has experience with that? > > http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ > > A good suggestion. Sorry, I have to disagree - IMO, checkinstall is just a kludge, which in longer terms does more harm to your system, than it helps. Ralf
