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remove msdblib flavour (with @pkgpath to handle updates): this is not really worth a separate flavour; just define MSDBLIB when building your applications if you require this behaviour.
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FreeTDS is a set of LGPL-licensed libraries that allow your programs
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to natively talk to Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases.
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Technically speaking, FreeTDS is an open source implementation of
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the TDS (Tabular Data Stream) protocol used by these databases for
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their own clients. It supports many different flavors of the protocol
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and three APIs to access it. Additionally FreeTDS works with other
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software such as Perl and PHP, providing access from those languages
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as well.
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FreeTDS has many possible uses. It has been used by Unix/Linux
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webservers to present data stored in SQL Server to the web, to port
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SQL Server database code from NT to Unix, to import data into SQL
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Server from a Unix source, and to provide database access on platforms
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(such as realtime systems) that have no native drivers.
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FLAVORS:
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openssl use OpenSSL instead of GnuTLS for encrypted connections.
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Avoids uthread problems but may not be redistributed; see README.
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