I just took a dreadful look at the RPMs. I've managed to build something
that resembles a 7.2 package, but there are a number of things that we
should talk about so this ends up being useful.
* The {pgaccess} parameter doesn't do anything AFAICT. PgAccess is
installed whenever Tk support is configured (which is correct, IMO).
Maybe this is just a legacy item?
* I removed the {plperl} parameter, because PL/Perl now builds by default
on Linux. Should plperl continue to stay its own package? I'd say yes,
because you don't need in on every client.
* Related to previous, the tcl package currently includes client and
server components. I'd say this is more useful as two separate packages.
* Similar issues with PL/Python
* Is libpgtcl.a supposed to be in the -libs package, while libpgtcl.so is
in -tcl? What about libpgtcl.h? Currently, the -devel package has an
implicit dependency on Tcl, which should probably not be there.
* How long do we want to keep the libpq.so.2.0 symlink?
* I fail to understand the motivation behind the way the -contrib package
is done. You seem to be installing the source code. I scrapped that and
installed the binaries the way it was designed to be.
* The -docs package is misleading. Maybe it should be called -docs-devel
or something. However, I'm having a hard time understanding how people
can make use of this.
* I request that rh-pgdump.sh and postgresql-dump be renamed to something
that conveys a semantic difference from pg_dump. Possibly, these files
should not be installed into /usr/bin if they're not general purpose.
* What about the JDBC driver? I think the driver should be compiled in
place by whatever JDK the build system provides.
* Start thinking about how to package National Language Support.
* Lot's of dependencies failing to be declared.
There are also a number of plain bug fixes that need to be integrated.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
