By the way, I remember to have read that the firebird makefiles are
able to produce debian packages (.deb file). Would it be possible to
put the debian package on the download page (beside the rpm) ?
Many debian guy (like me) would be happy from that.

Best regards,
Fabrice

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Paul Reeves <paul@f...>
wrote:

> On Thursday 13 November 2003 10:54, FA wrote:
> > Perhaps would it be a good idea that the install script ask the

user

> > where he wants to install (even if /opt stays as default). What do

you

> > think about this solution?
> >
>
> It is fine by me in principle. Unfortunately, the practice is a bit

more

> complicated. sigh. The rpm installs are currently not relocateable

(but

> they probably ought to be.) The .tar.gz installs could be a lot more
> sophisticated. But, in general, we need to keep all the installs in

sync.

>
> I really hope we find time to sort all this out. Finally, after many

months,

> people on fb-devel are starting to take a serious look at all the

issues

> underlying Linux installs. It is extremely complicated, though, so

don't

> expect instant results. Almost everything that we do to fix how

things work

> on one distro seem to break something on another.
>
> For now, just be thankful if it installs into /opt and it works.
>
> Paul
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