FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 06:04:42PM -0800, Peter Harvey wrote:
> > unixODBC comes with a command-line tool called odbcinst. odbcinst can be
> > used to create/add driver settings and DSN entries from the command line
> > and has been created specifically to help driver makers install their
> > driver.

> Forgot to mention... odbcinst can be used to help configure (or an RPM) to 
> automagically add these entries. This is particular useful for the driver 
> entry but it can also be handy to get a "test" DSN in there. unixODBC uses 
> it 
> to automagically add the TXT driver at install time. Just food-for-thought.

And I in fact use this in my packages for Debian.  Using Debian's
'debconf' configuration system, the administrator is prompted whether
the odbc driver should be automatically registered; and then the
below script snippet is run.  The odbcinst tool is a great aid to
packagers of ODBC drivers!

Cheers,
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer


# Always add in the postinst, always delete in the prerm -- this way,
# we'll always have a good reference count in odbcinst.ini.
if [ -e /usr/bin/odbcinst ]
then
        db_get freetds/addtoodbc || true
        if [ "$RET" = "true" ]; then
                odbcinst -i -d -f /usr/share/freetds0/odbcinst.ini 1>&2
        fi
fi

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