Re: contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>

To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>

Cc: "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2004-04-21T23:31:30Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

> 
> The thing is, for how many ppl are seperate packages difficult?  I know
> for me, under FreeBSD, I cd to a /usr/ports/databases/pg_autovacuum and
> type 'make install' and its done ... I thought that stuff like Redhat had
> the full screen installer that lists things?

Well, if setup correctly for redhat, debian or even SuSE you would type:

apt-get install pg_autovacuum

or with redhat you might also do

yum install pg_autovacuum

But that is packaging and that is up to the developers of the particular 
project.

Joshua D. Drake




> 
> My point is that all of this stuff shouldn't be in the core CVS ... its a
> packaging issue, not a cvs one ...
> 
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