[vox-tech] dpkg & checkinstall dependency fight

[Alex Mandel]

So I'm doing a bunch of custom work with migrating Zope sites.
No biggy but I'm playing with a lot of versions at once, from source of 
course, since I don't know how you would get a package manager to play 
nice here.

I ran into a little snag though.
I built several *.deb using checkinstall and giving them each different 
program names so they don't override each other.
However after the 1st one which seemed to go just fine, I'm getting an 
error where dkpg fails because my install is trying to overwrite 
/usr/bin/pyhton2.3
How do I make checkinstall not include python in it and rather rely on 
the system to provide it? It's inherently a little odd since Zope does 
rely on python very heavily for the installation.
I imagine if I just do make install instead that it won't be an issue, 
but I'm not sure I know how to remove an install done in this manner 
when I want to clean up later.

Alex