Re: restructuration

[Brian Bruns <camber ais org>]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> Holger Thon wrote:
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 01:04:09AM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > Just a quick note for Ismael (in CC) in Spanish, sorry!
> > >
> > > [Ismael, para tí es la pregunta de los RPMS]
> > >
> > > The RPM issue reminds me another thing. Right now, there is a spec file
> > > containing all the gnome-db packages. So, to build the RPMS, you need to
> > > have installed PostgreSQL, MySQL, ODBC, and Oracle (and very soon other
> > > DBMS when the in-development providers work) to be able to build the
> > > RPMS. This is ok for me for the moment, because I've got all this
> > > installed in my machine, but not for other people, or even for myself
> > > when DB2, Sybase, etc, etc are included. I don't want to have hundreds
> > 
> > Sybase provider is usable now, the diffs just went out to Stephan for
> > inclusion.
> >
> great!
>
Does the Sybase provider use dblib or ctlib?  I'd be interested in getting
it to work over FreeTDS (open source reimplementation of the above)

Brian
 
> > I'd suggest that libraries will be packaged first and each provider will
> > be moved into a separate package, being build on the basic of the packaged
> > libraries. I don't have a clue how this can be done using rpm, though.
> > 
> That's what I intend to do, but I've got no idea about how to do it with
> rpm neither.
>