"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 17:54 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> I believe Devrim already has a yum repository up and running for >> RPM-based distros, though I'm not sure he's got anything but the core >> packages in it (yet).
> Well that was certainly part of my point. We have > http://www.pgsqlrpms.org/ > ... > E.g; in short let's work with respective projects to get these as part > of the repositories. There's a limit to how far you can go there, because just about any distro (other than maybe Gentoo) is going to be resistant to dropping in bleeding-edge versions. *Especially* code that's not 99.44%+ compatible with what's in their current releases. To take the example I'm most closely familiar with: sure I can put the latest and greatest into Fedora rawhide, but that has approximately zip to do with what people are running in the field. As soon as a Fedora release happens, I'm constrained by compatibility issues as to what I can put into that branch. RHEL releases ten times more so. I gather that Debian, for instance, is even more paranoid than Red Hat about upstream version bumps. So I think the real-world situation is that we have to make stuff available to people who want to run something newer/different from what their chosen distro ships. That means providing our own repo. Certainly I've got no problem with pushing stuff to the official distros as fast as we can, but you've got to realize that that's gonna be a slow process, and necessarily always out of date for any distro version that is actually popular in the field. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers