Re: About the partial tarballs

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@postgresql.org>

From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
To: Marko Karppinen <marko@karppinen.fi>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-11-11T22:48:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Marko Karppinen wrote:

> I agree that the partial tarballs can confuse an ftp user, though. I
> think a good solution to this would be to put them one level deeper,
> into a subfolder. The full tarball would then be the only thing a casual
> user would encounter, but the source-based port systems could still
> benefit from the partial tarballs.

I don't agree, but if you can suggest improved working to:

ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/README.dist-split

to reduce the confusion, that would be great.  I've just symlink'd it into
the source directories as the .message, so that its displays when you
enter the directory ...