Re: Sybase Adaptive Server (SQL database) free for Linux

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

  Dirk> We really should (re-)package it. But I don't know enough about
  Dirk> Sybase to do this. Volunteers, please step forward.

  Ward>  I am definitely interested in packaging since I am using it with
  Ward> Caldera distribution. Very painful with RPM.
  Ward> 
  Ward> However, where is the contact point that I can get the origianl
  Ward> binaries?

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Sybase does not distribute
it. Rather, they point to RedHat, Caldera and SuSE to distribute .rpm
packages. 

I just took those .rpm, applied alien(1) and hand-tweaked (ie you have to
deal manually with getting it into /etc/init.d/, it needs a file 'functions'
with shell functions from a RedHat system etc).

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