From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
Cc: | Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Splitting distributions (Was: Re: [HACKERS] ECPG / Release) |
Date: | 2000-02-22 20:55:29 |
Message-ID: | 200002222055.PAA04289@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> One of the things I'd like to look at for 7.1 is start to split off the
> distributions ... we're up to a 7meg distribution and growing ...
>
> We should be able to do a pgsql-docs.tar.gz and pgsql-src.tar.gz at the
> very least ... putting 'doc' in a seperate tar file would reduce the size
> by ~3meg:
>
> total 3024
> -rw-r--r-- 1 scrappy wheel 2969424 Feb 22 15:27 doc.tar.gz
>
> Actually, is there a reason we can't do this now? I can change the 'tar
> build' system so that we have split systems that way ... this would at
> least safe testers from downloading 3meg worth of tar file that most
> likely won't get touched often ...
>
> I'm going to do this tonight, put it up and see what ppl thing ... if
> nothing else, it makes it easier for ppl to download smaller chunks ...
Seems like a good idea. Only RPM packages would have to know of the
split.
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