Re: Who and How is responsible for released installations packages and 3rd party packs? (e.g. on https://yum.postgresql.org/9.6/redhat/rhel-7.3-x86_64/)

Thanks all for responses.

Let me ask other dummy question:
plv8 RPMs were built by PostgreSQL Community for different OSes, or by
those OSes vendors/community (e.f. RedHat/Debian, etc)?
And the same question about postgresql-server install packages themselves
(RPMs, debs, etc)

Thanks in advance

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 11:30 AM, Pavel Raiskup <praiskup(at)redhat(dot)com> wrote:

> On Friday, August 3, 2018 8:08:55 AM CEST Devrim Gündüz wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-08-02 at 16:26 +0300, Alexandru Lazarev wrote:
> > > What about 3rd party libraries like plv8 - Who and How (based on which
> > > criteria, which versions) build RPM and upload them there?
> >
> > Latest versions of PL/v8 does not build on RHEL/Fedora anymore, at least
> from
> > the package build point of view.
>
> Yes, packaging of plv8 is pretty complicated. If one decided to ship RPM
> package with plv8, it would mean maintenance of whole v8 language - which
> is incredibly complicated (incompatible changes all the time, backporting
> security fixes, etc.).
>
> That's the reason why plv8 (and even v8 runtime) becomes dropped from Linux
> distributions.
>
> [1] https://github.com/plv8/plv8/issues/281
>
> Pavel
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