Re: [Firebird-devel] Problem with Firebird 2.5 Debian Builds

2011-12-27 Thread Alex Peshkoff
On 12/27/11 15:08, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > 27.12.2011 12:02, Alex Peshkoff wrote: >> May be we need 2 >> environment vars - one FIREBIRD fully backward coompatible and new one, >> something like FIREBIRD_INSTANCE? >Or rather FIREBIRD_BIN to point to binaries and FIREBIRD_LIB - to > librar

Re: [Firebird-devel] Problem with Firebird 2.5 Debian Builds

2011-12-27 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
27.12.2011 12:02, Alex Peshkoff wrote: > May be we need 2 > environment vars - one FIREBIRD fully backward coompatible and new one, > something like FIREBIRD_INSTANCE? Or rather FIREBIRD_BIN to point to binaries and FIREBIRD_LIB - to libraries. -- SY, SD. -

Re: [Firebird-devel] Problem with Firebird 2.5 Debian Builds

2011-12-27 Thread Alex Peshkoff
On 12/27/11 14:49, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > -=| Alex Peshkoff, 27.12.2011 14:38:59 +0400 |=- >> Agreed - guardian directory (and probably some others) should be >> overridable by environment. On the other hand, overriding all >> directories like you suggest is bad idea - for a debian package it's >>

Re: [Firebird-devel] Problem with Firebird 2.5 Debian Builds

2011-12-27 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-=| Alex Peshkoff, 27.12.2011 14:38:59 +0400 |=- > Agreed - guardian directory (and probably some others) should be > overridable by environment. On the other hand, overriding all > directories like you suggest is bad idea - for a debian package it's > meaningless to override bin or sbin, they shou

Re: [Firebird-devel] Problem with Firebird 2.5 Debian Builds

2011-12-27 Thread Alex Peshkoff
On 12/27/11 13:54, Tony Whyman wrote: > Alex, > > The test was simple enough. I ran the guardian under a non root account, > using "fakeroot" to avoid the restriction on account names, and set the > FIREBIRD environment variable to point to the Firebird directory tree > (firebird.conf, etc.) I had

Re: [Firebird-devel] Problem with Firebird 2.5 Debian Builds

2011-12-27 Thread Tony Whyman
Alex, The test was simple enough. I ran the guardian under a non root account, using "fakeroot" to avoid the restriction on account names, and set the FIREBIRD environment variable to point to the Firebird directory tree (firebird.conf, etc.) I had created under the same account. This was a setup

Re: [Firebird-devel] Problem with Firebird 2.5 Debian Builds

2011-12-26 Thread Alex Peshkoff
On 12/26/11 22:25, Tony Whyman wrote: > Looks like support for the FIREBIRD environment variable is broken in > the Debian builds for Firebird 2.5. I have so far checked the 2.5.0 and > 2.5.1 packages in https://launchpad.net/~mapopa/+archive/ppa and they > all seem to exhibit the same problem Als

[Firebird-devel] Problem with Firebird 2.5 Debian Builds

2011-12-26 Thread Tony Whyman
Looks like support for the FIREBIRD environment variable is broken in the Debian builds for Firebird 2.5. I have so far checked the 2.5.0 and 2.5.1 packages in https://launchpad.net/~mapopa/+archive/ppa and they all seem to exhibit the same problem Also building the packages myself from source (app