Hello, thanks for these packages. Will you try to upload MaxDB packages into official Debian package archive?
Martin Perina V Po, 01. 03. 2004 v 22:37, Martin Kittel píše: > Hi, > > I have prepared Debian packages of MaxDB release 7.5.00.08 that can be > downloaded from > > ftp://ftp.charade-db.org/pub/charade-db/debian/unstable > > or via apt-get if you add the following line(s) to your sources.list: > > deb ftp://ftp.charade-db.org/pub/charade-db/debian unstable/ > deb-src ftp://ftp.charade-db.org/pub/charade-db/debian unstable/ > > These packages aim to be compliant with Debian policy and therefore have > some incompatibilities with the official MaxDB tar.gz-packages that can > be downloaded from www.mysql.com: > > - all config files are located in /etc/maxdb > > - most of the MaxDB binaries are located below /usr/lib/maxdb, some > binaries are located in /usr/bin, check the packages to see which are where > > - database instance files are located below /var/lib/maxdb > > - MaxDB shared libraries (ODBC, SQLDBC) are installed with versioned > file names (e.g. libSQLDBC.so.7.5.00 instead of libSQLDBC.so as in the > official tar.gz-packages). This might give you trouble if you want to > run applications compiled with the official MaxDB packages on systems > with the Debian packages installed and vice versa. Creating the > appropiate symlinks should solve all problems though. > > - everything has been compiled using gcc 3.3.2 from Debian testing > (compilation on a current Linux distribution seems to allow volume sizes > greater than 2GB by the way) > > I have not checked whether a parallel install of MaxDB via SDBINST and > these Debian packages actually works but in principle it should if you > symlink the config files properly as the Debian packages use user 'sdb' > and group 'sdba' just like the official packages. 'sdb' and 'sdba' will > be created by the maxdb-server package if they don't exist yet. At the > moment they will not be removed even when purging the package. > > Currently, the packages are not available from Debian unstable. I will > look for a sponsor though if the packages should get some positive feedback. > > As these are no official MaxDB packages please send your reports about > packaging-related bugs (and it's quite likely you'll encounter some) to > this list or me directly and always state that you are using the Debian > packages when asking for help on the list (in case it's a non-obvious > packaging-related bug or a bug due to the different gcc versions used in > the official packages and the Debian packages). > > I hope you'll find these packages useful. > > Martin. > > Thanks a lot to www.charade-db.org for hosting the packages. > -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
