Thread: Fwd: PostgreSQL 7.4 documentation packaging

Folks,

Just got this request from Mark Recht, who maintains an RPM package library at
www.pkgsrc.org.    It seems that we don't have an option for compile for our
docs which is standard with other Linux tools.    How difficult would this be
to add?    It would help Mark keep our packages updated.

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-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
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=46rom: Marc Recht <recht@netbsd.org>
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Subject: PostgreSQL 7.4 documentation
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Like discussed on IRC just a few seconds ago ;-)

=46rom a packaging point of view tt'd be nice if PostgreSQL would have an=
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Cheers,
Marc

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Am Dienstag, 20. April 2004 00:18 schrieb Josh Berkus:
> Just got this request from Mark Recht, who maintains an RPM package library
> at www.pkgsrc.org.    It seems that we don't have an option for compile for
> our docs which is standard with other Linux tools.    How difficult would
> this be to add?    It would help Mark keep our packages updated.

pkgsrc is a NetBSD package library, not an RPM library.  We do have a target
to "compile" the documentation, which is how the documentation is built in
the first place.  I don't know what "standard" there is about that.

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Am Dienstag, 20. April 2004 00:18 schrieb Josh Berkus:
>> Just got this request from Mark Recht, who maintains an RPM package library
>> at www.pkgsrc.org.

> pkgsrc is a NetBSD package library, not an RPM library.  We do have a target
> to "compile" the documentation, which is how the documentation is built in
> the first place.  I don't know what "standard" there is about that.

I think what he was actually asking for was to provide a relatively
simple way (like a configure option) of installing the HTML docs into
a different directory from the plaintext docs.  It didn't sound like an
unreasonable request ...

            regards, tom lane

Tom Lane wrote:
> I think what he was actually asking for was to provide a relatively
> simple way (like a configure option) of installing the HTML docs into
> a different directory from the plaintext docs.  It didn't sound like
> an unreasonable request ...

You can use --with-docdir.  There are no other docs besides the HTML
ones, so this allows you to place the HTML docs anywhere you like.