Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-04 Thread Lamar Owen
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > What would be worthwhile is setting up another cvs module so packages can > be developed and released at their own pace. This is an _excellent_ point, and one I had thought of before but had forgotten. FWIW, I have a project set up at greatbridge.org -- I just have to g

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-04 Thread Lamar Owen
Karl DeBisschop wrote: > > Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: > > > > Rachit Siamwalla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Also i never got a response on who actually packages those linux init > > > scripts that appear in the RPM but not on the pgsql cvs tree. (i am also > > > curious on why it is di

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Karl DeBisschop writes: > PostgreSQL builds are great for the portability. The next logical step > might in fact be to extend some of that consistency to the package > creation arena. This would have been cool in 1996. We would have evolved a large number of different packages along with the bu

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-04 Thread Karl DeBisschop
Lamar Owen wrote: > > Tom Lane wrote: > > Seems like that stuff should be in CVS somewhere ... if only so someone > > else can pick up the ball if you get run over by a truck :-(. > > My wife appreciates the sentiment :-). As it stands now, better > documentation distributed in the source RPM w

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-04 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Perhaps src/rpm-tools/ or some such name. > It is platform-specific, which would seem to vote for /contrib. Huh? By that logic, all of src/makefiles/, src/template/, and src/backend/port/, not to mention large chunks of the configure mechanism, belon

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-04 Thread Karl DeBisschop
Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: > > Rachit Siamwalla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Also i never got a response on who actually packages those linux init > > scripts that appear in the RPM but not on the pgsql cvs tree. (i am also > > curious on why it is different, and how the RPM is built). >

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
> Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > contrib/rpm-dist? > > Contrib was my first thought also --- but on second thought, the RPM > packaging support is hardly contrib-grade material. For a large > proportion of our users it's a critical part of the distribution. > So, if we are going to h

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Lamar Owen writes: > contrib/rpm-dist? A separate CVS module sounds like a better idea to me. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-04 Thread Lamar Owen
Tom Lane wrote: > Contrib was my first thought also --- but on second thought, the RPM > packaging support is hardly contrib-grade material. For a large > proportion of our users it's a critical part of the distribution. > So, if we are going to have it in the CVS tree at all, I'd vote for > putt

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-04 Thread Tom Lane
Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > contrib/rpm-dist? Contrib was my first thought also --- but on second thought, the RPM packaging support is hardly contrib-grade material. For a large proportion of our users it's a critical part of the distribution. So, if we are going to have it in the

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-04 Thread Tom Lane
Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As to why all these files aren't part of the source tree, well, unless > there was a large cry for it to happen, I don't believe it should. > PostgreSQL is very platform-agnostic -- and I like that. Including the > RPM stuff as part of the Official Tarbal

RE: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-04 Thread Rocco Altier
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Rachit Siamwalla wrote: > 1. `pidof` should be `pidof -s` (2 instances) > 2. restart) should be stop; sleep x; start > ideally, stop should actually wait till postgres fully stops. The sleep is > just a temporary fix. > Perhaps a naive question, but why not use the pg_ctl for

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-04 Thread Lamar Owen
Tom Lane wrote: > Seems like that stuff should be in CVS somewhere ... if only so someone > else can pick up the ball if you get run over by a truck :-(. My wife appreciates the sentiment :-). As it stands now, better documentation distributed in the source RPM would help greatly. Everything ne

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-03 Thread Lamar Owen
Rachit Siamwalla wrote: > Thanks a lot for your total and complete description of the process. (i > should have checked out the sprm first before asking). I empathize with > what you said about packaging not being a simple task, i have been through > the agony. Empathize is appropriate if you've

RE: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-03 Thread Rachit Siamwalla
Thanks a lot for your total and complete description of the process. (i should have checked out the sprm first before asking). I empathize with what you said about packaging not being a simple task, i have been through the agony. About putting your stuff into the postgres tree, i believe it wou

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-03 Thread Lamar Owen
Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: > > Rachit Siamwalla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Also i never got a response on who actually packages those linux init > > scripts that appear in the RPM but not on the pgsql cvs tree. (i am also > > curious on why it is different, and how the RPM is built). >

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-03 Thread Lamar Owen
Rachit Siamwalla wrote: > oh btw, i completely forgot to mention the minor fixes to the linux init > scripts i mentioned earlier (about 2 weeks ago) for things that perhaps > should be in the 7.1.1 release. (someone sent out a mail that they were > branching 7.1.1) > Also i never got a response o

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-03 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Rachit Siamwalla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also i never got a response on who actually packages those linux init > scripts that appear in the RPM but not on the pgsql cvs tree. (i am also > curious on why it is different, and how the RPM is built). Lamar Owen and I. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrø

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
Not sure on their status. Are they listed on the outstanding patches page at the bottom of the developers page? Probably too late for 7.1.1 now. [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > oh btw, i completely forgot to mention the minor fixes to the linux init > scripts i mentioned

RE: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-03 Thread Rachit Siamwalla
oh btw, i completely forgot to mention the minor fixes to the linux init scripts i mentioned earlier (about 2 weeks ago) for things that perhaps should be in the 7.1.1 release. (someone sent out a mail that they were branching 7.1.1) Also i never got a response on who actually packages those linu

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
OK, Oleg, I am applying this on your word only. I don't understand its purpose, but you sent it with a 7.1.1 subject so I assume you want it in there. This is not a critical area of our code. > Please, > > apply a little patch: > > --- src/test/locale/test-ctype.cTue Sep 1 08:40:33

Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1

2001-05-03 Thread Oleg Bartunov
Please, apply a little patch: --- src/test/locale/test-ctype.cTue Sep 1 08:40:33 1998 +++ /u/megera/app/locale/test/test-ctype.c Fri Sep 15 19:12:06 2000 @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ void describe_char(int c) { - charcp = c, + unsigned char cp = c,