rc3 debs

[Ken Moffat]

Brian Masinick wrote:

>Ken,
>
>If what you have seems to work well, I'd be interested.
>I've also seen and installed checkinstall, but I've not
>actually used it more than once or twice.  I'd be interested
>in the steps you performed to create the packagesm including
>the checkinstall stuff.  I'm always up for learning something
>I haven't done yet.
>
>Thanks!
>Brian
>  
>

For each package I did the following:

# ./configure --prefix=/usr
# make
checkinstall -D --install=no
dpkg -i --force-overwrite xf*.deb

I tried
dpkg -i xf*.deb
but in several cases it failed because of the need to overwrite stuff 
from the old packages.

-- 
Ken