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  • From: "Bort, Paul" <pbort AT tmwsystems.com>
  • To: 'FreeTDS Development Group' <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [freetds] 0.61rc4 posted and announced
  • Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:31:45 -0500

I'm not worried about the number of RPMs so much as the number someone would
need to do a basic connectivity test. That number should be one, and it is.
I could see combining i386 and doc, but keeping the others separate makes
sense to me. (I don't use ODBC at all.)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: James K. Lowden [mailto:jklowden AT schemamania.org]
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 8:57 AM
> To: FreeTDS Development Group
> Subject: Re: [freetds] 0.61rc4 posted and announced
>
>
> On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:18:36 -0500, "James K. Lowden"
> <jklowden AT schemamania.org> wrote:
> >
> > Freddy, I didn't post your rpm for rc1, sorry. When you
> have one ready
> > for rc4, I'll get that up there ASAP. Same for the .deb, Steve.
>
> Freddy sent me the RPMs and they are posted on ibiblio.org. I haven't
> updated the links on freetds.org yet.
>
> There are now 5 (!) rpms:
>
> freetds-0.61-1.src.rpm
>
> freetds-0.61-1.i386.rpm
> freetds-devel-0.61-1.i386.rpm
> freetds-doc-0.61-1.i386.rpm
> freetds-unixodbc-0.61-1.i386.rpm
>
> Is this considered a good thing? I can understand src/i386,
> but why have
> the binaries broken into 4 parts? It seems very fragmented for such a
> simple project.
>
> In any case, I think we need some documentation for the purpose and
> contents of the RPMs.
>
> --jkl
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