text_combined: gary peck gbpecksbcglobalnet well thanks everyone explanations still disagree reasoning seems one philosophical questions im losing end checkinstall utility someone mentioned seems useful dont really time figure right searching web found mandrakes version rpm patched support wanted guess ill look get chance thu aug 15 2002 051447pm 0200 ralf ertzinger wrote nothing build section copy existing binaries install far tell could useful situation complete solution since cant really distribute srpms full certainty work least make rpms local use tarring buildroot directory using technique really want get dependency tracking everything installed system including software cvs makes little bit faster gary _______________________________________________ rpmlist mailing list httplistsfreshrpmsnetmailmanlistinforpmlist thu 15 aug 2002 174531 0700 making rpms alreadycompiled source trees