On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 21:06, Biju Chacko wrote: > It's very cool, it automagically makes rpms/debs/slackware packages out > of tarballs. Very handy for tarballs without spec files. IIRC, it does > strip binaries however, Just use the --strip=<yes|no> and/or --stripso=<yes|no> switches as needed. Try checkinstall --help for much more info.