Re: Question about the contrib rpm ?

On 3/3/06, Agnes Bocchino <agnes(dot)bocchino(at)bull(dot)net> wrote:
> Hello Tom, hello List,
>
> Sorry if we haven't been clear in our first mail.
> We don't really understand your answer.
> So, we try to clarify our general question and give more details :
>
> When we go on the web site to download PostgreSQL 8.1.2,
> we find not only the serveur rpm but also some others rpms.
> and we don't kow which of them we have to install together with our rpm
> make from the 8.1.2 targz.
>
> We are making our rpm on Novascale Ia64
> We have used the "postgresql-8.1.2.tar.gz" file downloaded from the
> PostGreSQL web site. From that file, we have re-compiled PostGreSQL for
> IA64 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS, with the "icc" Intel compiler.
> We would like to 'deliver' a more complete set as possible.
> and we don't know if we have to package some others packages..
> For the langage python,perl,tcl .......we know that if we need them we
> have to use the --with option when we compile.
> It seems also to us that it is not necessary to have the lib rpm as the
> necessary librairies are include in the rpm when wecompile and package it.
> but ..............we dont' know what doing with the *contrib *rpm
> available on the net, should we have to deliver it with our rpm.
>
> Why this question ?
> When we have extract files from the archive file, we have obtained these
> directories :
> [/BUILD/postgresql-8.1.2]$ ls -ltr
> total 1528
> -rw-r--r-- 1 postdev pgsql 445 Apr 23 2004 aclocal.m4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 postdev pgsql 1375 Oct 1 2004 README
> -rw-r--r-- 1 postdev pgsql 1412 Oct 6 2004 Makefile
> -rw-r--r-- 1 postdev pgsql 1192 Dec 31 2004 COPYRIGHT
> -rw-r--r-- 1 postdev pgsql 3435 May 1 2005 GNUmakefile.in
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 postdev pgsql 689752 Jan 5 05:02 configure
> -rw-r--r-- 1 postdev pgsql 43596 Jan 5 05:02 configure.in
> -rw-r--r-- 1 postdev pgsql 387774 Jan 6 05:09 HISTORY
> -rw-r--r-- 1 postdev pgsql 44484 Jan 6 05:09 INSTALL
> drwxr-xr-x 2 postdev pgsql 4096 Jan 6 05:09 config
> drwxr-xr-x 35 postdev pgsql 4096 Jan 6 05:09 *contrib*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 postdev pgsql 3435 Feb 16 12:22 GNUmakefile
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 postdev pgsql 56658 Feb 16 12:22 config.status
> drwxr-xr-x 15 postdev pgsql 4096 Feb 16 12:22 src
> drwxr-xr-x 7 postdev pgsql 4096 Feb 16 12:22 doc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 postdev pgsql 278305 Feb 16 12:22 config.log
>
> Under the "contrib" repertory, we have among others things
> "*start-scripts*" directory which contains the "linux" file which allows
> to launch automatically PostGreSQL each time the machine reboots.
> [ contrib]# ls
> adddepend dblink intarray mSQL-interface
> pgstattuple tablefunc
> btree_gist dbmirror isbn_issn oid2name
> pg_trgm tips
> chkpass earthdistance lo oracle
> README tsearch2
> contrib-global.mk fulltextindex ltree pgbench
> seg userlock
> cube fuzzystrmatch mac pg_buffercache
> spi vacuumlo
> dbase intagg Makefile pgcrypto
> start-scripts xml2
>
>
> And when we install our rpm, we don't have a "contrib" directory such as
> this obtains after having extracted the files from the tar.gz archive.
> Our question is how to add in the rpm that we have generated a "contrib"
> directory, in order to have scripts like "linux" ?

If you're building your own rpm you'll need to do it yourself - that's
getting beyond what this list can help you with.

> Or should we used the "contrib" rpm available in the web site

No - because it's not built for your system or with your compiler, it
may work but you may also run into strange bugs.