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  • From: "Marquess, Dustin" <Dustin.Marquess AT allegiancetelecom.com>
  • To: 'FreeTDS Development Group' <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [freetds] 0.61rc4 posted and announced
  • Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:29:31 -0600

Since when does FTP report a MIME type? Sounds like a MIME type your
browser is automatically associating...

-Dustin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Rensing [mailto:prensing AT cimetrics.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 9:23 AM
> To: FreeTDS Development Group
> Subject: Re: [freetds] 0.61rc4 posted and announced
>
>
> I think that splitting the RPMs is a good thing. I am not
> sure about the
> "doc" RPM, but the others make sense. Most library packages
> separate the
> development ("devel") package from the main libraries, so
> that you don't
> need the headers, etc. if you are not compiling. Also, putting the
> unixODBC drivers in a separate package is appropriate, since not
> everyone wants or needs the ODBC code (or maybe they use iODBC).
>
> BTW, iBiblio's FTP server reports the RPM files as being of type
> "audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin", presumably because of a clash of file
> extensions. Anything to be done about that?
>
> Paul Rensing
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 08:57, James K. Lowden wrote:
> > 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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> --
> Paul Rensing <prensing AT cimetrics.com>
> Cimetrics, Inc.
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