Re: 7.1.2 packaging

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On Monday 04 June 2001 10:56, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
> > On Sunday 03 June 2001 13:05, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> > > "Tim Mickol" <tmickol@combimatrix.com> writes:
> > > > any word on 7.1.2 in RPM or SRPM form?
> > > An SRPM can be found at http://people.redhat.com/teg/pg/

> > NOTE:
> > While Trond's SRPM is very good (and will be used for pieces in the PGDG
> > SRPM release), do note that Trond's scripts and spec file both use
> > features of latest RedHat releases, which my RPM's may or may not use.

> There shouldn't bee much there which is Red Hat specific...
> There is comments on the top of the file which break some early
> versions of rpm v3 (newer versions of RPM should be run on all
> supported versions of Red Hat Linux anyway). Other than that,
> reference to Red Hat specific files (like /etc/sysconfig/i18n) are
> conditional.

In the initscript the use of gettext()?  The use of the Red Hat init 
functions success and kin?  (I _know_ some versions of TurboLinux don't 
support those functions -- yet the RPM will build and run successfully on 
TurboLinux otherwise.) 

At one point the spec file wouldn't build to completion on Red Hat 6.1 -- 
which, at the time, I was supporting, due to the use of a libtool fileset 
that didn't exist in 6.1. While I know, understand, and agree that you don't 
need to support older Red Hat releases in the RPMset, I feel rather strongly 
that the 'generic' RPMset should support as many RPM-based platforms as is 
possible -- that is, if PostgreSQL builds and runs, then the RPMset should 
build and run.  At least that is my goal -- which means I may very well have 
cruft in there that the latest RPM fixes -- and I may have to deal with older 
RPM versions.  This is one area our goals differ -- and that's OK.

If I still had a development platform running Red Hat 5.2, I'd be making sure 
that is built there as well.
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11
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