* Automatically build Debian packages using checkinstall, as suggested

by Pjotr Prins a while back.  This could also be used to generate
  RPMs for packages that don't have a spec-file.

* Added checkinstall to Nixpkgs.  However we don't use our own build
  yet because with it "make install" segfaults in a Debian VM, while
  the pre-built binary does work.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=13400

pkgs/tools/package-management/checkinstall/default.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, gettext}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "checkinstall-1.6.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://checkinstall.izto.org/files/source/checkinstall-1.6.1.tgz;
+    sha256 = "0p6gbbnk4hjwkmv8dr7c4v5wpdnanczavi7yiiivvf45zyfl8lil";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [gettext];
+
+  preBuild = ''
+    makeFlagsArray=(PREFIX=$out)
+
+    substituteInPlace checkinstall --replace /usr/local/lib/checkinstall $out/lib/checkinstall
+    substituteInPlace checkinstallrc-dist --replace /usr/local $out
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://checkinstall.izto.org/;
+    description = "A tool for automatically generating Slackware, RPM or Debian packages when doing `make install'";
+  };
+}