Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
Dear all,
I've been packaging Virtuoso for Debian. As a user of Debian and
Debian-derived distros such as Ubuntu, it eases maintenance a lot to have
them. Also, it is in fact very easy in its simplest case, there are two
scripts that can be used, I've used svn-buildpackage since we use SVN, which
is documented here: http://debianpaket.de/svn-buildpackage/index.html
Since OpenLink are using CVS, you may want to look at cvs-buildpackage, which,
works analogously AFAIK.
I have a first iteration of the control file, where the dependencies are
encoded. If anybody wants it, please let me know.
I have also successfully packaged Virtuoso, but the problem is that it
contains some binaries which is allready available from other sources, and
this creates a conflict.
This is the output from installing the package:
dpkg: error
processing /home/kkj/dev/virtuoso-opensource/build-area/virtuoso-opensource_5.0.8-1_amd64.deb
(--install):
trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/isql', which is also in package unixodbc
I'm trying to understand what the isql binary is and how it relates to the
binary in unixodbc. If it is the same, then I would suppose that it would be
better to not build this binary in the virtuoso package, and instead create a
dependency on unixodbc.
If they are substantially different, there are two possibilities: Rename the
binary in the virtuoso package, so that it doesn't conflict. If the isql
binary in virtuoso can be used instead of the unixodbc, then I think that the
Debian way would be to declare them as conflicting alternatives.
They are very different. Both have the aim of presenting a command-line to
a database connection, but unixODBC's isql talks only to an ODBC Driver
Manager, while ours talks only to Virtuoso (on the sql port, 1111/tcp). One
should probably be renamed (`isqlv' perhaps?).
HTH,
~Tim
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Tim Haynes
Product Development Consultant
OpenLink Software
<http://www.openlinksw.com/>
