[asterisk-users] Nightly tarballs, would you use them?

Michiel van Baak michiel at vanbaak.info
Sun Jan 20 06:01:18 CST 2008


On 20:43, Sat 19 Jan 08, Russell Bryant wrote:
> Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> > 	I'd be even more likely to use nightly (or other periodic snapshot,
> > even weekly) .deb packages. Because then I could use APT to notify me
> > and manage them. Especially if they included a changelog (which APT
> > reports), even if that changelog were only names of files/modules
> > touched since the last one.
> 
> Have you tried the checkinstall app?  It's a quick way to make a deb out
> of a tarball install.

or svn checkout.
It will track make install and create a deb from it.

Besides .deb it also supports .rpm and .tgz (for rpm and
installpkg)

It's a nice tool for creating a package to distribute to all
your machines.

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