Re: [GENERAL] Compiling to RPM setup/filesystem layout

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On Thursday 31 May 2001 16:22, Steve Wolfe wrote:
> something else fills up /var, PG isn't hosed.  And if PG fills up it's
> partition, other services aren't hosed.

Make a partition mounted on /var/lib/pgsql. :-)

>     Now, play some villanous music, and enter RedHat wearing a black cape,
> with small, beedy eyes.  They insist that an OS should not touch
> /usr/local, and they're right about that.  However, if you choose to

Linux Standards Base and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard sets that policy,
not Red Hat. And I happen to think it installs to the right place, IMHO. :-)
And Red Hat ain't no villain -- unless you're a BSD partisan who thinks Red
Hat is responsible for popularizing Linux beyond its worth (that,
incidentally, is a friendly dig at scrappy.....)  If you like Linux, you
should absolutely adore Red Hat -- if nothing else, for payrolling Alan Cox
and the stable kernels.

> download the Postgres RPM and install it via RPM yourself, they seem to
> interpret that as "the OS touching /usr/local", and it won't happen.  You
> will end up with the binaries in /bin or /usr/bin, the libraries in /lib
> or /usr/lib, and the postgres data directory under /var, if I recall.  In
> short, it spreads things out quite a bit, making it a headache to track
> things down.

Running rpm -ql on the RPMset is too much of a hassle, right? Removing all
traces of the RPMset is easier than removing all traces of a from-source
install.

> ugly.  So, either stick with RPM's, and get RedHat's ideas about where
> libraries and binaries should go (and the accompanying mess), or stick to
> the source, and get them where the developpers meant them to go, but don't
> mix them.

Developing a great RDBMS != knowing where to put that RDBMS in the systems
context. Sorry.

Although, as I _am_ mentioned as a 'Developer' on the globe, and the RPM puts
the files where I mean for them to go... well, you decide the worth of that.

And followup to the PORTS list, as this is a ports, not a general, issue.
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11
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