Re: Packaging policy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Michel POURE [mailto:jm(dot)poure(at)freesurf(dot)fr]
> Sent: 11 June 2003 10:54
> To: pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [pgadmin-hackers] Packaging policy
>
>
> > I'll leave that to you guys as you clearly know more than
> I. BTW. do
> > you speak Japanese?
>
> No... I can only say "Yes" in Japanese (pronounce "Hi" like
> in American). One
> of my client has a Japanese web site, therefore got used to
> using UTF-8.

Oh well. That was completely off-topic btw.

> Let's talk of packages now...
>
> > Slackware's packaging system is based on tgz's but I know what you
> > mean. They were only a quick lash up.
>
> Can http://www.slackware.com/config/packages.php be used to
> install your
> packages?

Not as they stand because (iirc) I need to make a tag file and make sure
the full path is in the tarball. There is an rpm2tgz tool listed at the
bottom of the page that might make things more consistent...

> I am currently downloading Mandrake 9.1 for installation on
> an old box. Seems
> like we now have RedHat, Slackware and Mandrake daily
> packages. We still need
> Suse 8?1 packages and Debian packages.

OK.

> - Suse
> I will try to get in contact with the maintainer of
> PostgreSQL packages at
> Suse to ask for help. I met him at the PostgreSQL conference
> in FOSDEM, he is
> a very nice guy.

Sounds good.

> - Debian
> Knopix is the easiest way to install Debian. Maybe it can be
> used to generate
> packages. I don't know anything about Debian. Dave, do you run Debian
> stations at work? Have you tried Knopix? It is designed by a
> PostgreSQL
> hacker.

No, I don't use Debian, and never have.

What about FreeBSD, Mac OS-X & Solaris? They are probably the other main
unixes we should target. I did have FreeBSD on CD, and Solaris 7(?), but
that's x86. No Sparcs around here unfortunately.

I do think that we should get the build sorted first as well though.
Having looked at what's coming out of snake, I think it's (now) half
dynamic and half static. The wx parts are static, but libpq, glibc etc.
are dynamic.

Regards, Dave.