Re: Fwd: Inclusion of Ingres RDBMS in Fedora

2010-02-23 Thread Jay Hankinson
On 2/23/10 12:07 AM, Oliver Falk wrote: > Hi Jay! > > On 02/23/2010 04:09 AM, Jay Hankinson wrote: > [ ... ] > >> * Ingres requires that the server executable is setuid (non-root) >> > Actually I don't know any>rules< that speak against this. However, if > it's really needed, then

Re: Inclusion of Ingres RDBMS in Fedora

2010-02-23 Thread Jay Hankinson
On 2/22/10 9:33 PM, Iain Arnell wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Jay Hankinson > wrote: > >> Hello Fedora Devs, >> > Hello Ingres Dev, > > >> Over the last few weeks, I spent a lot of time review and amending the >> Ingres (a highly scalable, full-featured open source RDBMS

Re: Fwd: Inclusion of Ingres RDBMS in Fedora

2010-02-23 Thread Oliver Falk
Hi Jay! On 02/23/2010 04:09 AM, Jay Hankinson wrote: [ ... ] > * Ingres requires that the server executable is setuid (non-root) Actually I don't know any >rules< that speak against this. However, if it's really needed, then we cannot really do anything against it. And if there's a rule that

Re: Inclusion of Ingres RDBMS in Fedora

2010-02-22 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Tuesday 23 February 2010, Iain Arnell wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Jay Hankinson > > * Current build process uses $ORIGIN for relative RPATH linking. > > This one is slightly trickier. Using rpath for system libraries is > absolutely forbidden. But packaging guidelines has info

Re: Inclusion of Ingres RDBMS in Fedora

2010-02-22 Thread Iain Arnell
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Jay Hankinson wrote: > Hello Fedora Devs, Hello Ingres Dev, > Over the last few weeks, I spent a lot of time review and amending the > Ingres (a highly scalable, full-featured open source RDBMS) building and > packaging process with the intention of submitting it

Fwd: Inclusion of Ingres RDBMS in Fedora

2010-02-22 Thread Jay Hankinson
Hello Fedora Devs, Over the last few weeks, I spent a lot of time review and amending the Ingres (a highly scalable, full-featured open source RDBMS) building and packaging process with the intention of submitting it for inclusion in the Fedora distribution. We've had binary RPM support for a whil