Re: problem with some version numbers, question about --fstrans

[Felipe Sanchez <izto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ffstrans is useful when you want to create a package but not actually 
install it.

We're working on the bugs, most should be fixed for 1.6.1.


On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Yaohan Chen wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thanks for writing maintaining checkinstall. It's been very helpful since I've
> started using it. However, when I use it to make/install package for some
> programs, it's unable to detect the version correctly, and repeats the
> version about 10 times. Could this be due to that the version "number" ends
> with non-numeral characters, for example, 1.1.2+svn? I have this problem with
> Wesnoth <http://www.wesnoth.org> SVN, and I think a few other programs, but I
> don't remember them anymore.
>
> Another problem is that when I install some programs, I seem to have to use
> --fstrans=no in order to make it succeed. Otherwise, I usually get an error
> with not being able to preserve modification time of some file because it
> doesn't exist, or sometimes a library file doesn't exist. The first usually
> happens when I'm upgrading a program, and the second seems to happen when a
> program installs some library and then builds something else with it. Are
> there any advantage to having fstrans=yes when it works?
>
> --
> Yaohan Chen