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<!ENTITY dhemail "<email>fsateler@gmail.com</email>">
<!ENTITY dhusername "Felipe Sateler">
<!ENTITY dhucpackage "<refentrytitle>CheckInstall</refentrytitle>">
<!ENTITY dhpackage "checkinstall">
<!ENTITY debian "<productname>Debian</productname>">
<!ENTITY gnu "<acronym>GNU</acronym>">
<!ENTITY gpl "&gnu; <acronym>GPL</acronym>">
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<refentry>
<refentryinfo>
<address>
&dhemail;
</address>
<author>
&dhfirstname;
&dhsurname;
</author>
<copyright>
<year>2006</year>
<holder>&dhusername;</holder>
</copyright>
&dhdate;
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
&dhucpackage;
&dhsection;
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>&dhpackage;</refname>
<refpurpose>
Track installation of local software, and produce a binary manageable
with your package management software.
</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>&dhpackage;</command>
<arg><replaceable>options</replaceable></arg>
<arg><replaceable>install command</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para>
<command>&dhpackage;</command> is a program that monitors an installation
procedure (such as <command>make install</command>, <command>install.sh
</command>), and creates a standard package for your distribution
(currently deb, rpm and tgz packages are supported) that you can install
through your distribution's package management system (dpkg, rpm or
installpkg).
</para>
<para>
Note that for most useful actions, <command>&dhpackage;</command> must
be run as root.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>OPTIONS</title>
<para>These programs follow the usual &gnu; command line syntax,
with long options starting with two dashes ('-'). A summary of
options is included below.</para>
<para>All the options that toggle a switch default to activate the option.
To force activation or deactivation, call them with '=yes' or '=no'. As
an example, to disable stripping use --strip=no.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-h</option>
<option>--help</option>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>Show summary of options.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--version</option>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>Show version information.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--copyright</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Show Copyright information</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--type</option>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>Choose packaging system. Can be one of 'slackware', 'debian'
or 'rpm'.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-D</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Create a Debian package.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-R</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Create a RPM package.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-S</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Create a Slackware Package.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--install</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Toggle installation of the created package.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--fstrans</option>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>Enable/disable filesystem translation. Filesystem translation
enabled causes the install to proceed in a temporary directory, thus
not actually touching your system.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-y</option>
<option>--default</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Accept default answers to all questions.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--pkgname</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Set the package name.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--pkgversion</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Set package version.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-A</option>
<option>--arch</option>
<option>--pkgarch</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Set package architecture.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--pkgrelease</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Set the package release.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--pkglicense</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Set package license.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--pkggroup</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Set the package group.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--pkgsource</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Set source location</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--pkgaltsource</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Set alternate source location</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--pakdir</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Where to save the new package.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--maintainer</option>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>Set the package maintainer. Be careful to correctly
quote/escape the name, to prevent shell expansion</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--provides</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Features provided by this package (currently only on RPM and Deb).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--requires</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Dependencies required by this package.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--rpmflags</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Pass this flags to the rpm installer.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--rpmi</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Use the -i flag when installing a rpm.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--rpmu</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Use the -U flag when installing a rpm.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--dpkgflags</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Pass this flags to the dpkg installer</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--spec</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Where the .spec file is located</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--nodoc</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Do not include documentation files.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-d</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Set debug level. Must be one of 0, 1 and 2.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-si</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Run an interactive install command</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--showinstall</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Toggle interactive install command.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-ss</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Run an interactive Slackware installation script.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--showslack</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Toggle interactive Slackware installation script.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--autodoinst</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Toggle creation of a doinst.sh script.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--strip</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Toggle stripping any ELF binaries found inside the package.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--stripso</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Toggle stripping any ELF libraries (.so) found inside the package.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--addso</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Search for any shared libs and add them to /etc/ld.so.conf</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--reset-uids</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Reset perms for all files/dirs to 755 and the owner/group for all dirs to root.root</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--gzman</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Compress any man pages found inside the package.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--docdir</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Where to put documentation files.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--umask</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Set the umask value.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--exclude</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Exclude these files/directories from the package.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--include</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Force the inclusion in the package of the files/dirs listed in the argument (a file).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--inspect</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Inspect the package's file list</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--review-spec</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Review the spec file before creating a .rpm.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--review-control</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Review the control file before creating a .deb.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--newslack</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Use the new (8.1+) Slackware description format ("--newslack" implies "-S")</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--with-tar</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Manually set the path to the tar binary.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--deldoc</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Toggle deletion of doc-pak upon termination.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--deldesc</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Toggle deletion of description-pak upon termination.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--delspec</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Toggle deletion of spec file upon termination.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--bk</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Backup any overwritten files</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--backup</option>
</term>
<listitem><para>Toggle backup</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>FILES</title>
<para>This program reads its configuration from /etc/checkinstallrc, which can be used to override defaults.
Command line arguments override settings in the configuration file.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>AUTHOR</title>
<para>This manual page was written by &dhusername; <&dhemail> for
the &debian; system (but may be used by others). Permission is
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under
the terms of the &gnu; General Public License, Version 2.
</para>
<para>
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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