On Friday 21 November 2008 23:33:47 Tom Lane wrote: > Historically the man.tar.gz files were created manually because there > were some manual fixups needed to the generated man files. I'm not sure > what vestiges of that still remain --- Peter's generally been the one to > take care of it. But we definitely aren't shipping a freshly generated > copy in the nightly snapshot right now.
I don't actually know how the snapshots are built, so I don't know how to fix it. > If we do have a fully automated process now, it's probably fair to ask > why there's an internal tarball involved at all, rather than just > shipping the built man1/ and man7/ subdirectories (and likewise for the > html). Double compression of that data isn't going to be helpful. Fixing all this is definitely my plan for 8.4, but we are not there yet. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
