Re: [Firebird-devel] official install script on ubuntu 10.10 does have some errors , must be corrected (I will add a bug later today)

[Alex P. <pes...@ma...>]

 On 10/29/10 16:14, marius adrian popa wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Alex Peshkoff <pes...@ma...> wrote:
>>  On 10/29/10 15:17, marius adrian popa wrote:
>>> mariuz@borkstationx64:~/work/FirebirdSS-2.5.0.26074-0.amd64$ sudo ./install.sh
>>>
>>> Firebird super 2.5.0.26074-0.amd64 Installation
>>>
>>> Press Enter to start installation or ^C to abort
>>> Extracting install data
>>> insserv: warning: script 'K01firebird' missing LSB tags and overrides
>>> insserv: warning: script 'firebird' missing LSB tags and overrides
>> Marius, can you provide a script that will work on ubuntu?
>> And ideally the best way to detect distro?
> I will check what is the error and commit a patch
>

When scripts were written, ubuntu did not exist at all (or was not much
popular). I.e. currently sooner of all some other script is used. May be
it's better to add new script?

> I don't know All 

I've meant only - how to detect that it is ubuntu.

> distros but for ubuntu/debian is simple (I saw the
> install.sh script and i will put it there)
> if debian_version is present
>
> cat /etc/debian_version

> then check if is ubuntu
> lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
> Description:	Ubuntu 10.10
> Release:	10.10
> Codename:	maverick
>
OK, now seem clear.

> also there is the libstc++ problem ;)
> http://mapopa.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-firebird-25-official-targz.html

Looks like it's really time to switch to v.6.
v5 is definitely history.