Re: Question about the contrib rpm ?

Hello,

We are working with PostGreSQL since november 2005, and ours questions
are automatically those of novice persons, that's why your answer
suprises us.

The aim of our question about the "contrib" rpm was to understand why
this package exists, what it is used for, and how generate it. We know
that we are building our own rpm, but by doing this, we also test
PostGreSQL on an IA64 platform...

Thank you for your help.

Regards,
Agnès & Alexandra

chris smith a écrit :

>On 3/3/06, Agnes Bocchino <agnes(dot)bocchino(at)bull(dot)net> wrote:
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>>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" ?
>>
>>
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>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.
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>>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.
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