Hi Paul..
On Monday 20 February 2006 22:39, Paul Smith wrote:
I have just created a rpm of dvipdfmx with checkinstall. However, when I try to install it, I get the following:
# rpm -ihv dvipdfmx-20050831-1.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:dvipdfmx ########################################### [100%] error: unpacking of archive failed on file /selinux/context;43fa40de: cpio: open failed - Permission denied #
Yep.. add this to your /usr/local/lib/checkinstall/checkinstallrc
# Comma delimited list of files/directories to be ignored EXCLUDE="/selinux"
It's worth studying this rc file, it has some hand features :)
HTH
-Colin