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djee
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Subject: Re: [PORTS] [GENERAL] Redhat RPMs
Reply-To: Andrew Overholt <overholt@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <200310141315.18492.lowen@pari.edu>

Lamar Owen once said:
> On Friday 10 October 2003 08:52 pm, Christopher Browne wrote:
> > Oops! nandrews@investsystems.co.uk ("Nigel J. Andrews") was seen
> spray-painting on a wall:
> > > I've not looked at many RPMs but I must say that the few I have have
> > > never been relocatable. Can the postgresql RPMs not be made
> > > relocatable?

I tried this once but had many issues with initdb and a few others IIRC.
The locations of data directories and such was being hard-coded in them at
compile time and I had to do a lot of sed-ing in the specfile to make it
work.  I know I accomplished that but ended up hitting a wall with
something ... I'll look in my old mail to remind myself what it was.

> It wasn't at that time implemented due to political factors (read: the then
> Red Hat maintainer (@redhat.com) refused to include such support even if I

I don't think that applies anymore :)  David Jee is the current maintainer
and I'm sure that he'd be open to such suggestions.  I've CC'd him.

Andrew

Argh!  Sorry about that last mail.  The subject line should have been as
above (not blank).  If anyone wants a repost with the proper subject, I'll
do it.

Andrew

Andrew Overholt wrote:
> djee
> Bcc:
> Subject: Re: [PORTS] [GENERAL] Redhat RPMs
> Reply-To: Andrew Overholt <overholt@redhat.com>
> In-Reply-To: <200310141315.18492.lowen@pari.edu>
>
> Lamar Owen once said:
>
>>On Friday 10 October 2003 08:52 pm, Christopher Browne wrote:
>>
>>>Oops! nandrews@investsystems.co.uk ("Nigel J. Andrews") was seen
>>
>>spray-painting on a wall:
>>
>>>>I've not looked at many RPMs but I must say that the few I have have
>>>>never been relocatable. Can the postgresql RPMs not be made
>>>>relocatable?
>>>
>
> I tried this once but had many issues with initdb and a few others IIRC.
> The locations of data directories and such was being hard-coded in them at
> compile time and I had to do a lot of sed-ing in the specfile to make it
> work.  I know I accomplished that but ended up hitting a wall with
> something ... I'll look in my old mail to remind myself what it was.
>

If we go with the Debian proposal of a specific package name for each
version that has a different catalog version (needs pg_dump +
pg_restore) and multiple versions installed we can basically eliminate
this.  The paths provided to configure in each of these packages will
have a different base directory, which includes the version, so each
package will be a 'normal' package, not a relocatable one.



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