I highly advise against this unless you are making a real
installer. There are startup scripts and configuration
items. Additionally, your system may not be reflected in
my system and there can be issues.

Better to contact the maintainer of the port and see what
can be done to make that process better

You also are not a trusted authority so there will be no
signature to check etc. Thats another of the reasons
FreeBSD and Gentoo build from scratch, the entire process
is signed.

Anyone who has FreeBSD 4.8+ can simply download the latest
port from www.freebsd.org, type

cd /usr/ports/database/firebird;make install

and they have firebird running. This is not really an
issue about a binary...

John-

On Fri, 7 May 2004 15:00:56 +0100
"Paul Beach" <pabeach@...> wrote:

>> > I found Firebird 1.5 for FreeBSD 5.x on ports and I'm
>>using it.
>>
>> Is this an "official" build, or did you build it
>>yourself? And if
>> it's official, why doesn't it appear on the Firebird.org
>>website?
>
>Seems that problem has been solved, one of the FB
>developers posted the
>following on the development list this morning. So expect
>the builds to
>appear on the Firebird site in the near future.
>
>All,
>
>I've got FB 1.5.0 CS binaries for FreeBSD 4.8/4.9 and
>5.1/5.2. They were
>sent to me privately. I know that FB 1.5 is included in
>the FreeBSD ports
>tree, but we still don't have them on our site. Does
>anyone (Chris?) mind
>that I upload them to the SF area?
>
>
>Dmitry
>
>Regards
>Paul
>
>
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