Re: Three weeks left until feature freeze

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Chris Browne wrote:

> kleptog(at)svana(dot)org (Martijn van Oosterhout) writes:
>> On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 01:26:30PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> The right way to proceed is what was mentioned in another message:
>>> work harder at educating packagers about which non-core projects
>>> are worth including in their packages. I have to confess
>>> contributing to the problem, as I'm not currently including
>>> eg. Slony in the Red Hat RPMs. I certainly should be --- but
>>> "fixing" that by pushing Slony into the core PG distro is not a
>>> solution.
>>
>> Indeed. Distributors are not going to go through pgfoundary and
>> package everything, there's just no point. I think it would be very
>> useful to dedicate a portion of the website to add-ons that are
>> considered worthwhile.
>
> If there were enough chunks of it that were buildable using pgxs or
> similar such that they could pretty readily script up...
>
> for project in `echo $LIST`; do
> cd $DOWNLOADS
> wget http://downloads.pgfoundry.org/${project}/${project}-latest.tar.bz2
> cd $BUILDHOME
> mkdir $${project}
> cd $${project}
> tar xfvj $DOWNLOADS/${project}-latest.tar.bz2
> cd *
> ./configure --pgxs-options --path=/usr --rpm-deteriorata
> make install
> run-rpm-file-collector $${project}
> done
>
> The folks running Perl and Python repositories have gotten the
> "toolage" together so that you can pull CPAN packages and very nearly
> turn them into RPM packages.
>
> If we have an interestingly large set of packages at pgFoundry that
> are "that RPMable," then they *will* come.

Well, the other thing to point out is that there is nothing stop'ng ppl
from building and uploading their own RPM binaries to pgfoundry ...

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