Hi Derek, the person working on it i mentioned before is Bernd Eckenfels as you can check on http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/being_packaged i offered him help before and same offer goes for you. i guess you should at least contact him before starting your own, but i would like to see a package soon as well.
one problem for a official package is going to be the build environment vmake. is it completely open source as well? on which architechtures does it build? etc. bye fabian p.s. for Derek: please contact me directly concerning the package because i hardly browse over this list at the moment. On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 07:58, Derek Neighbors wrote: > On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 13:15:40 +0200 > "Karsten Wolfert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Derek, > > first - perhaps it's a solution to convert the RPM package to Debian > > with alien!? > > Did you try it? > > My point isnt that I cant install SAP-DB. The problem is that I need it in Debian, >not just the Debian package. > > > By the way - on > > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-Building-HOWTO-4.html is good > > article for generally using tarballs instead of prepackaged binaries: > > download, unpack, ./configure, make, make install (as root), ready! > > Thirdly - In the special thing of sapdb it's still better to use > > ./SDBINST to install the tarball, isn't it? > > I think you are missing my point. :) I know how to build software and packages. My >question was not 'how do i install SAPDB on Debian'. As a Debian user and Free >Software Developer I think it is important to offer SAP-DB in the Debian Distribution >so that users wishing to maintian a cohesive system with strong packaging can have >that luxury. > > A while back I offerred to make Debian packages and someone said they were working >on them, I was hoping that person would respond so that I could lend them a hand or >finish what they started. If I dont hear back from this list I will assume no one is >actively working on this. I will then look to create the packages and have them >uploaded to unstable. In which is anyone here willing to test? > > Mark, you guys are running SAP-DB on Debian on the OSDL machines correct? > > Derek Neighbors > GNU Enterprise > http://www.gnuenterprise.org > _______________________________________________ > sapdb.general mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mybytes.de _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general
