Technical questions about checkinstall

[nyxrobotics]

Nice to meet you.
I am new to checkinstall.
I have done a lot of research on the internet and I think you are the only user who is working on improving checkinsall.
I have two things I want to improve.
Can you give me a hint if you have a solution for this?

• Fix mkdir error nyxrobotics/checkinstall#1
• Default to Debian package nyxrobotics/checkinstall#2

[n3rdopolis]

Older checkinstall used a different layer, installwatch which has the mkdir bug.

This fork uses overlayfs, you might want to pass --fstrans=no --overlayfstrans=yes and all file systems need to support being overlayfs lowerdirs. Most do, except for fat and ntfs IIRC, and some others. It is not obvious which ones unless you test. It uses a probe to determine that. I use this in chroots, so it may fail with /boot/efi mounted...

It is because of 1f8fb87 defaults to Debian

[nyxrobotics]

Thanks for the reply. I understood very well.
I have an additional question, what file do I edit to make --fstrans=no --overlayfstrans=yes the default value?

[n3rdopolis]

Actually I think it might be the default, unless the probe finds a filesystem mounted that overlayfs doesn't support as a lowerdir

[n3rdopolis]

You could get around it with --exclude=/boot/efi,/sys,/proc,/dev
You'd have to pass that as an argument, or

I think in /etc/checkinstallrc

EXCLUDE=/boot/efi,/sys,/proc,/dev
TRANSLATE=0
OVERLAYFSTRANS=1

[nyxrobotics]

Thanks for kindly sharing the information.
I will give it a try.