On 10/28/14 18:34, Paul Reeves wrote: > >>>> There, we are >>>> planning to move towards distro-specific packages and afaict, multiple >>>> installs are just not possible at the moment. >> Both mentioned "facts" are new for me. >> >> Why should _we_ move towards distro-specific packages? > Sorry - what I meant was that the project is no longer going to supply > binaries for linux and users should get them from their distro.
+1 >> Next, why do you say that multiple installs are not possible? We are >> missing shell script automating procedure, but it does not mean that >> manual multiinstancing is not possible. > Yes, but I'm not sure how I would go about it on opensuse, for example. When I > needed to do it recently I just installed the tarball a couple of times. > (This was with 2.5). > We can have a script to add or delete instances. What should be specified for the script is instance's root directory (where firebird.conf for an instance is placed), port to listen and instance name. To drop an instance it's name is enough. One will not need to have more than single copy of binaries to run multiple instances. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
