Re: [HACKERS] rpms

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: "Sergio A. Kessler" <sak@tribctas.gba.gov.ar>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 2000-03-01T14:00:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> it shouldn't be better to rename the package postgresql-xxx.rpm
> to postgresql-libs-xxx.rpm ??
> actually is quite confusing, because at first look it seems that
> this package is the real thing (then you discover that is not,
> that the package you really want is postgresql-server).

Actually, what you suggest was how the naming was in earlier RPMs.
However, I changed the naming convention since the fundamental
installation should require client-side code only, to talk to a remote
server. In cases where Postgres is deployed on many machines, only one
or a few will have the server installed, while all machines will get
the client packages.

Regards.

                   - Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart				lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California