Christoph Berg <c...@df7cb.de> writes: > However, for PostgreSQL this means lengthy debian/*.install files > (the equivalent of %files in rpm spec speak):
Right ... > If there were separate "install-client", "install-server", and > "install-contrib" targets, that would probably shorten those files > quite a bit. Especially messy is the part where *.so needs to be > sorted into server/contrib, along with an similar large bunch of > binaries. Pardon me for not knowing much about Debian packages, but how would that work exactly? Is it possible to do make install-client, then package the installed files, then rm -rf the install tree, then repeat for install-server and install-contrib? In the RPM world this would never work because the build/install step happens in toto before the packaging step. Even without that, it seems like it'd be hard to make it entirely automatic since some files would be installed in multiple cases (and directories even more so). 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