Re: Do we really want to migrate plproxy and citext into PG core distribution?

On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 23:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 17:54 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I believe Devrim already has a yum repository up and running for
> >> RPM-based distros, though I'm not sure he's got anything but the core
> >> packages in it (yet).
>
> > Well that was certainly part of my point. We have
> > http://www.pgsqlrpms.org/
> > ...
> > E.g; in short let's work with respective projects to get these as part
> > of the repositories.
>
> There's a limit to how far you can go there, because just about any
> distro (other than maybe Gentoo) is going to be resistant to dropping in
> bleeding-edge versions.

Certainly.

> *Especially* code that's not 99.44%+ compatible
> with what's in their current releases. To take the example I'm most
> closely familiar with: sure I can put the latest and greatest into
> Fedora rawhide, but that has approximately zip to do with what people
> are running in the field.

We could have a quality committee? Something that says, "These 5
packages are considered stable by PGDG". Those go into the various
repositories whether published directly to STABLE (or equiv) or are put
into something like Universe.

> So I think the real-world situation is that we have to make stuff
> available to people who want to run something newer/different from what
> their chosen distro ships. That means providing our own repo.
>

Yes that is what pgsqlrpms is.

> Certainly I've got no problem with pushing stuff to the official distros
> as fast as we can, but you've got to realize that that's gonna be a slow
> process, and necessarily always out of date for any distro version that
> is actually popular in the field.

I should note that my point is about using proper package formats first,
working with distros second. I am under no illusion that we will likely
have to have our own repos (which is one of the reasons we have
pgsqlrpms). The good news is, we have the beginnings of this already for
at least three major distros.

It should be relatively trivial to work with macports, fink and freebsd.
I am sure the Open Solaris group would be more than happy to as well.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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