Re: ODBC/FreeBSD/LinuxEmulation/RPM?

Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>

From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-03-19T19:44:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
* Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> [010319 11:27] wrote:
> * Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> [010319 10:35] wrote:
> > 
> > Is there any way to get just the ODBC RPM to install with OUT
> > installing the whole DB? 
> > 
> > I have a strange situation:
> > 
> > StarOffice 5.2 (Linux) Running under FreeBSD Linux Emulation
> > PG running NATIVE.
> > 
> > I want the two to talk, using ODBC.
> > 
> > How do I make this happen?
> 
> rpm2cpio <pg_rpmfile.rpm> > pg_rpmfile.cpio
> cpio -i < pg_rpmfile.cpio
> tar xzvf pg_rpmfile.tgz

Sorry, i was just waking up when I wrote this... the idea is to
extract the rpm then just grab the required ODBC files.

best of luck,
-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]