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.
> 


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