On Saturday 29 November 2008 00:52:03 Tom Lane wrote:
> AFAICT, we are building both man.tar.gz and postgres.tar.gz on-the-fly
> in current releases. At least, both of them have internal timestamps
> supporting that theory in the official 8.3.5 and 8.2.11 tarballs, and
> the contained files reflect recent source changes. It looks to me like
> the dev snapshot build process has failed to track the official releases.
Well, Stefan showed upthread that the snapshot script contains this line:
cp ~ftp/pub/dev/doc/man-7.4.tar.gz ../man.tar.gz
This needs to be changed to copy man.tar.gz instead.
Releases might work differently, but that is not really the problem at hand.
