Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL 7 RPMs coming soon

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > database, in an FHS-compliant manner (the current regression tests AND
> > upgrade scripts are not in compliance with the FHS in terms of their
[snip]

> What exactly is FHS and what do they say? I am vaguely phantasizing about
> doing a little work on the build process for the next release; is that
> something that could be addressed?

FHS 2.0 is the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, successor to the Linux
FileSystem Standard (FSSTND). You may find the full document at
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

Currently, in order to get PostgreSQL into RPM form requires a number of
mungifications -- the current prefix parameter is set to /usr, which
puts binaries and shared libs in the right place -- but everything else
is moved into place manually. It is a rather kludgy build script (ask
Thomas, he knows). To look at the build script (in RPM parlance, a
'spec file'), load up
http://www.ramifordistat.net/postgres/unpacked/non-beta/postgresql-6.5.3-3.spec
(one line; it'll probably wrap on your e-mail client).

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