kleptog@svana.org (Martijn van Oosterhout) writes: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 01:26:30PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> The right way to proceed is what was mentioned in another message: >> work harder at educating packagers about which non-core projects >> are worth including in their packages. I have to confess >> contributing to the problem, as I'm not currently including >> eg. Slony in the Red Hat RPMs. I certainly should be --- but >> "fixing" that by pushing Slony into the core PG distro is not a >> solution. > > Indeed. Distributors are not going to go through pgfoundary and > package everything, there's just no point. I think it would be very > useful to dedicate a portion of the website to add-ons that are > considered worthwhile.
If there were enough chunks of it that were buildable using pgxs or similar such that they could pretty readily script up... for project in `echo $LIST`; do cd $DOWNLOADS wget http://downloads.pgfoundry.org/${project}/${project}-latest.tar.bz2 cd $BUILDHOME mkdir $${project} cd $${project} tar xfvj $DOWNLOADS/${project}-latest.tar.bz2 cd * ./configure --pgxs-options --path=/usr --rpm-deteriorata make install run-rpm-file-collector $${project} done The folks running Perl and Python repositories have gotten the "toolage" together so that you can pull CPAN packages and very nearly turn them into RPM packages. If we have an interestingly large set of packages at pgFoundry that are "that RPMable," then they *will* come. -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="cbbrowne.com" in name ^ "@" ^ tld;; http://cbbrowne.com/info/oses.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #98. "If an attractive young couple enters my realm, I will carefully monitor their activities. If I find they are happy and affectionate, I will ignore them. However if circumstance have forced them together against their will and they spend all their time bickering and criticizing each other except during the intermittent occasions when they are saving each others' lives at which point there are hints of sexual tension, I will immediately order their execution." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
