I've been using checkinstall for a number of years, and it's not failed me
until today.

Trying to install scribus-1.3.3.7 with checkinstall and I see this:

make[3]: Entering directory /opt/scribus-1.3.3.7/scribus'
test -z "/usr/local/bin" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/bin"
/bin/sh ../libtool --silent --mode=install /usr/bin/ginstall -c -p
/'scribus' '/usr/local/bin/scribus'
/usr/bin/ginstall: writing /usr/local/bin/scribus': No space left on device

That's an interesting comment because df reports 18.6G of free space on
that partition.

I have a SlackBuild script now for scribus, but I'd like to know why the
above error might have occurred. All this with Slackware-11.0.

Ric

rshepard@salmo.appl-ecosys.com wrote:
> I've been using checkinstall for a number of years, and it's not failed me
> until today.

So have I, it is a really nice way of creating packages. With checkinstall
1.6.0 included in Slackware 11 extra I have seen some bugs. The doc-pak
directory isn't removed, and I have also failed to install python and perl
modules with that version. Reverting to version 1.5.3 included in
Slackware 10.2 helped against all my troubles. My guess is that the bugs
are within the installwatch library. The installwatch included in
checkinstall 1.6.0 seems to have beta status.

> /usr/bin/ginstall: writing /usr/local/bin/scribus': No space left on
> device

I haven't seen that bug though. You could try to see if it helps to
downgrade to 1.5.3.

regards Henrik
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On 22 Jan 2007 23:19:10 GMT, rshepard@salmo.appl-ecosys.com wrote:

> /'scribus' '/usr/local/bin/scribus'
> /usr/bin/ginstall: writing /usr/local/bin/scribus': No space left on device
>
> That's an interesting comment because df reports 18.6G of free space on
> that partition.

checkinstall in its default mode uses a pseudo root filesystem, so infact
it's not writing the data to the partition on which /usr/local resides.
Try looking in /var/tmp

s.

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rshepard@salmo.appl-ecosys.com wrote:

> /usr/bin/ginstall: writing /usr/local/bin/scribus': No space left on
> device
> ...
> That's an interesting comment because df reports 18.6G of free space
> on that partition.

It's a long shot, but ... out of inodes?

(more likely, as someone else suggested, out of space on an intermediary
file system ... See what options ginstall is called with and whether any
of them cause it to create a temporary copy of the file in an alternate
directory, for example)

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