Re: Redhat RPMs (Was: Debian experimental packages

On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 00:28, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:17:53PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > I haven't got any further than this, but I wonder if this is something
> > that would be useful to the whole project and not just to the
> > distributions.  Any comments?
>
> None except that this is more or less how we manage multiple
> installations and back ends in our test and production environments.
> It works pretty well.  I also know that Tom Lane uses something again
> similar in order to support the apparently limitless different
> permutations of installations he has available at the touch of '.
> filename'.

I imagine a lot of people have such in-house set-ups.  The question is
whether the project itself should provide the structure to do it.

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