Re: Splitting distributions (Was: Re: [HACKERS] ECPG / Release)

> One of the things I'd like to look at for 7.1 is start to split off the
> distributions ... we're up to a 7meg distribution and growing ... 
> 
> We should be able to do a pgsql-docs.tar.gz and pgsql-src.tar.gz at the
> very least ... putting 'doc' in a seperate tar file would reduce the size
> by ~3meg:
> 
> total 3024
> -rw-r--r--   1 scrappy  wheel  2969424 Feb 22 15:27 doc.tar.gz
> 
> Actually, is there a reason we can't do this now?  I can change the 'tar
> build' system so that we have split systems that way ... this would at
> least safe testers from downloading 3meg worth of tar file that most
> likely won't get touched often ...
> 
> I'm going to do this tonight, put it up and see what ppl thing ... if
> nothing else, it makes it easier for ppl to download smaller chunks ...

Seems like a good idea.  Only RPM packages would have to know of the
split.

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