FreeTDS Development Group

[Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT peppler.org>]

Brian Bruns writes:
 > 
 > Well, the only question is how we will handle locale information in the
 > future. But for now interfaces is the sole configuration file.  Maybe we
 > should create a /etc/freetds/ directory though as I can imagine other
 > packages having a file named "interfaces", so it makes it really clear
 > what it is for and who it belongs to (not to be confused with network
 > interface cards etc...)
 > 
 > For now, change whatever you want as far as locations.  Our only
 > dependency is that SYBASE is set...I'll throw some code it to have it
 > check /etc/freetds/interfaces or /etc/interfaces (whichever you decide is
 > best, I'm leaning towards the former) so even this requirement will go
 > away. 

I think it should *definitely* be /etc/freetds/interfaces, not
/etc/interfaces. 

There are other files that will ultimately have to live there, such as 
charset files and locale files.

I assume that you are going to put the .a and .so files in /usr/lib?
That should be OK.

That being said I dislike some of the packaging decisions that are
being made (not necessarily debian only - redhat has the same
problem). If you download the source and build it using default params 
most packages will install in different directories (/usr/local/foo
often) from where the "package" installs it, and so it's difficult to
upgrade from source directly...

Also - the further you move away from the normal Sybase layout, the
more problems you will have porting software that expects this layout...

Michael


 > On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Andreas Tille wrote:
 > 
 > > On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Brian Bruns wrote:
 > > 
 > > > > 1) What is the purpose of the file
 > > > > 
 > > > >      /usr/interfaces
 > > > > 
 > > > The interfaces file stores the IP address and port of the dataserver.  
 > > > It 
 > > > is referenced in src/tds/util.c if you are interested.
 > > Thanks, I found it now.
 > > 
 > > So, if interfaces is a configuration file, it has to be go to /etc
 > > (as suggested in another mail).  If there would be more configuration
 > > concerned files, they would have to got to /etc/freetds.  Are there
 > > other files of this kind?
 > > 
 > > In the first case I would like to do the following patch in utils.c:
 > > 
 > >    if (ip_addr[0]=='\0')
 > >    {
 > >        char  *sybase = getenv("SYBASE");
 > >        if (sybase!=NULL && sybase[0]!='\0')
 > >        {
 > >           search_interface_file(sybase, "interfaces", server, ip_addr, 
 > > ip_port);
 > >        }
 > > +       else
 > > +       {
 > > +         search_interface_file("/etc", "interfaces", server, ip_addr, 
 > > ip_port);
 > > +       }
 > >    }
 > > 
 > > > I posted a message a few days ago about the search order that is used, 
 > > > but 
 > > > in brief it is: 1) specified in the application 2) $HOME/.interfaces 
 > > > 3) 
 > > > $SYBASE/interfaces
 > > That would mean: 4) /etc/interfaces
 > >  
 > > > Theoretically it should probably go someplace similar to the ODBC 
 > > > configuration files (for unixODBC or iODBC) and the SYBASE var can be 
 > > > set 
 > > > to that directory. I suppose we need to rethink this a bit.  I'd like 
 > > > to 
 > > > keep things as distribution (and OS) neutral as possible.
 > > That's OK.  However, in my opinion a sane default directory should
 > > be supported.  If I did understand FHS right, /etc would be a good
 > > choice which doesn't conflict with other UNIXes.
 > > Please inform me what you want to do:
 > > 
 > > 1) Implement the patch mentioned above in the distribution?
 > > 2) Want me to change it only for the Debian-Package as Debian
 > >    specific patch.
 > >  
 > > > Not at all really, I have some time over the holidays and was 
 > > > considering 
 > > > sprucing it up, but currently it works only for simple queries.
 > > A working ODBC driver would be pretty neat.
 > >   
 > > > The samples directory is obsolete and needs to be removed (just 
 > > > haven't 
 > > > gotten around to it). You can now edit the PWD file and run the 
 > > > unittests 
 > > > by running 'make test' from the freetds directory.  There is a 
 > > > unittests 
 > > > directory under each libraries directory (tds, dblib, ctlib) which 
 > > > contains 
 > > > sample programs.
 > > Thanks, I'll try that.
 > > 
 > > Due to limited spare time I have to admit, that the FreeTDS driver will
 > > probably not be shipped with the next Debian release (2.2), because
 > > I would have to have it ready up to the beginning of January.  I think
 > > that would not be happen.
 > > 
 > > Kind regards and thanks
 > > 
 > >              Andreas.
 > > 
 > 
 > 
 > ---
 > You are currently subscribed to freetds as: mpeppler AT peppler.org
 > To unsubscribe, forward this message to $subst('Email.Unsub')
 > 

-- 
Michael Peppler         -||-  Data Migrations Inc.
mpeppler AT peppler.org    -||-  http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler
Int. Sybase User Group  -||-  http://www.isug.com
Sybase on Linux mailing list: ase-linux-list AT isug.com