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 ...