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1. Split Distro

   Henshall, Stuart - WCP <shenshall@westcountrypublications.co.uk> — 2001-04-09T10:56:09Z

   	When I downlaod a full tarball I want it all, I'm greedy like that.
   ;)
   If it is to be split up as standard I believe problems will arise with
   different versions being used together (by me most likley...). Also IMHO it
   will not necessarily be relised the docs have not been down loaded which
   means refering to older docs if there was a previous installation, or not
   finding any if no previous install.
   	Also to prevent confusion it might be usefull to have the split
   distro in its own sub directory (eg Postgresql-7.1-Split-Distro, or
   somesuch), as when I first looked in on the download directory it was not
   imediatly obvious there was one main tarball and the rest where a split
   version rather than a main one with optional stuff (which is not my favoured
   option).
   This is all just in my opinion of course.
   - Stuart
   
   
   

2. Re: Split Distro

   Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> — 2001-04-09T11:51:08Z

   On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Henshall, Stuart - WCP wrote:
   
   > 	When I downlaod a full tarball I want it all, I'm greedy like that.
   > ;)
   > If it is to be split up as standard I believe problems will arise with
   > different versions being used together (by me most likley...). Also IMHO it
   > will not necessarily be relised the docs have not been down loaded which
   > means refering to older docs if there was a previous installation, or not
   > finding any if no previous install.
   > 	Also to prevent confusion it might be usefull to have the split
   > distro in its own sub directory (eg Postgresql-7.1-Split-Distro, or
   > somesuch), as when I first looked in on the download directory it was not
   > imediatly obvious there was one main tarball and the rest where a split
   > version rather than a main one with optional stuff (which is not my favoured
   > option).
   
   Well, unless you have a broken client, the first thing you get when you
   enter the directory that the files are in is:
   
   =====================
   Information regarding the split distribution
   --------------------------------------------
   
   In the various download directories you will find alongside files with
   names like
   
   postgresql-XXX.tar.gz
   
   (where XXX is a version number) smaller files with the names
   
   postgresql-base-XXX.tar.gz
   postgresql-opt-XXX.tar.gz
   postgresql-docs-XXX.tar.gz
   postgresql-test-XXX.tar.gz
   
   The file named "postgresql-XXX.tar.gz" is the full source distribution.
   Each of the other four "tarballs" contains a subset of the files from the
   full distribution, for downloading convenience.  If you download all four
   of them and unpack them into the same directory you will get exactly what
   you would have gotten had you downloaded the full distribution.
   
   The -base package is the only one that is required for successful
   installation.  It contains the server and the essential client interfaces.
   The -opt package contains all parts whose compilation needs to be enabled
   explicitly.  This includes the C++, JDBC, ODBC, Perl, Python, and Tcl
   interfaces, as well as multibyte support.  The -docs package contains the
   documentation in HTML format (man pages are in -base) and the
   documentation sources.  You don't need to download this package if you
   intend to browse the documentation on the web. Finally, the -test package
   contains the regression test suite.
   
   (Note, this scheme is new as of version 7.1RC4.  Previous versions used a
   different, incompatible split where all subpackages where required.)
   
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