Re: RPM: Contrib request. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: RPM: Contrib request.
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0101252004570.1136-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to RPM: Contrib request.  (Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>)
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Lamar Owen writes:

> It has been requested that I ship prebuilt contrib items in the 7.1
> RPMset.  Currently, the source code of the whole contrib tree is being
> shipped in the main RPM as documentation,

It doesn't work to build contrib items without a source tree available.
(At least Makefile.global and Makefile.shlib are necessary.)

> Now, I see a couple of different ways I can go about doing this -- I can
> build a large 'postgresql-contrib' RPM (which would also eliminate the
> source of the contrib tree in the documentation -- possibly) containing
> the _whole_ tree, prebuilt (possibly in /usr/lib/pgsql (or postgresql --
> I'm not at all settled on the subdir naming scheme) -- OR, I can build
> individual RPMs for each contrib element.

Maybe they could be grouped into a couple of packages.

> But, in the instance of pg_dumplo -- can I get some ideas on it?  Should
> it be shipped as a separate package, or in the -server subpackage, or??

It shouldn't be packaged at all because it's not necessary.  (pg_dump
dumps large objects.)

-- 
Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/



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