Yes, this seems very much like the stuff I've been thinking about. I'll
bring it up when the next devel cycle has started.
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Lamar Owen wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > database, in an FHS-compliant manner (the current regression tests AND
> > > upgrade scripts are not in compliance with the FHS in terms of their
> [snip]
>
> > What exactly is FHS and what do they say? I am vaguely phantasizing about
> > doing a little work on the build process for the next release; is that
> > something that could be addressed?
>
> FHS 2.0 is the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, successor to the Linux
> FileSystem Standard (FSSTND). You may find the full document at
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
>
> Currently, in order to get PostgreSQL into RPM form requires a number of
> mungifications -- the current prefix parameter is set to /usr, which
> puts binaries and shared libs in the right place -- but everything else
> is moved into place manually. It is a rather kludgy build script (ask
> Thomas, he knows). To look at the build script (in RPM parlance, a
> 'spec file'), load up
> http://www.ramifordistat.net/postgres/unpacked/non-beta/postgresql-6.5.3-3.spec
> (one line; it'll probably wrap on your e-mail client).
>
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> Lamar Owen
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