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  • From: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman AT debian.org>
  • To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Packaging FreeTDS for Debian
  • Date: 21 Dec 1999 10:05:57 -0500


Hey, Andreas!

Andreas Tille <tillea AT rki.de> writes:
> 1) What is the purpose of the file
> /usr/interfaces
>
> I tried to check the sources but didn't found a place, where it
> is really needed.
> The reason for this is that it conflicts with the Debian policy
> for placing files. If it is really needed it should go anywhere
> under /usr/share (because it is a plain ASCII-file and so it
> is architecture independent). I'd like to suggest to place it
> in
> /usr/share/freetds/interfaces
> and I'd like to know, if this change would require any changes to
> the source.
> May be you could think about such kind of location for your
> distribution or you could make the location configurable at
> compile time.

Based on my experience with Sybase---not with FreeTDS, so things may
be a bit different---I'd think that the proper place for that would be
/etc/interfaces, or perhaps /etc/freetds/interfaces. interfaces is
the file that lists the available servers.

Mike.




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