raoul wrote:


> It turns out the problem was due to my having a number of non-standard
> package descriptions. I had compiled a lot of things from source and then
> used checkinstall to install them. Checkinstall prompts you for a package
> description, so I supplied some info that meant something to me but which
> -- I now know -- did not follow the Slackware package standard. The latest
> version of pkgtool apparently trips up on non-standard package
> descriptions. I edited the descriptions to conform to the Slackware
> standard, and now it works fine. As you say, it's much faster.
>
> I think the maintainer-developer is going to issue a fix in case there are
> others like me who used non-standard descriptions in their home-made
> packages, or who installed other non-standard third-party packages.
>
> For my part, I was glad to get things in conformity with fairly stringent
> -- in spite of the name -- Slackware standard.

me too I heavly maneged my box with compiling lot of thing by myself using
checkinstall thousand times and I don't have this problem...
when checkinstall prompt me about the package description I enter only the
current date! like 26/01/2005 and only this
Uhm...strange really..


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