Re: gpg not working with kmail

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:41:49AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sat May 24 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > I am updating it with new one.  Its draft is here:
> >
> > http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html#basicprecauti
> >ons http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch13.en.html (See
> > caution here)
> 
> nice reference, thanks!
> and I did install checkinstall and I do install packages using checkinstall. 
> Sometimes it fails, and a make install works, THEN checkinstall works...

I do not understand your confidence.  What do you mean "works".  Just
because it did not fail, it does not mean it worked right.

When you --prefix=/usr/bin , you already over wrote into non /usr/local
lcation which is system file location.  Just do not do this.

I am not user of checkinstall and so I may be wrong on minor details on
its use but overwriting system file like you did is sure call for
trouble.

Checkinstall does not protect system from such brutal act.  Checkinstall
is designed to install everything under one directory in /usr/local (or
possibly under /opt) and remove them cleanly later.

With checkinstall, I expects --prefix=/usr/local/gnupg or
--prefix=/opt/gnupg to be used.  (Please read the manual.)

cheers,

Osamu