Re: Trouble with RPM

BTW, Lamar, thanks for the RPMs.  Fine job.

Lamar Owen wrote:
>
> Gilles DAROLD wrote:
> > Please don't use RPM if you don't want to have a Win$ based install.
> > It's remember me a very old question: Where are the DLL ?
>
> > The better way is to get the tarball and do a fresh compilation, you will
> > learn more about postgres (see the INSTALL file and other documentation).
> > And then all your files will go in /usr/local/pgsql by default !
>
> You know, it's responses like this that make me think... why do I pour
> so much energy in trying to get the RPM's right?  And then I remember
> all those folks that have thanked me for the good RPMs.
>
> RPMs are in no way comparable to Win.  But, then again, if you want to
> really learn X, or the linux kernel, you should really go do the
> 'roll-your-own-distribution' thing -- not use RedHat at all.
>
> The RPM's have been built to simply and easily allow things that are not
> easily possible with the standard tarball installation -- such as not
> having the postmaster/backend on a client-only system.  Or picking and
> choosing amongst the clients.  Or not having to have the source taking
> up space after the system is built.  Some folks actually want to run
> PostgreSQL on secure boxen that won't even have a compiler installed --
> such as my production database server.
>
> And, if you build from source, and put everything in /usr/local/pgsql,
> you have all that added work to get everything working right.  If you
> just simply want to _use_ PostgreSQL to get some work done, then there
> is nothing at all wrong with using the RPM set.
>
> To answer the original question, refer to the
> /usr/doc/postgresql-7.0.2/README.rpm file -- then install
> postgresql-server RPM.
>
> As to 'DLL Hell' -- thanks to the way rpm works, you are never in danger
> of this -- rpm -ql package-name gives you a complete list of files in a
> particular rpm.  The companion 'rpm -qf /some/file/some/where' gives you
> the inverse, showing what package a file belongs to.  Of course, you do
> need a recent RedHat distribution -- but you need that anyway.  (I am
> working on getting the source RPM to build on other
> distributions/OS's....)
>
> Comparing the RPM installation to Win is a low blow -- so, yes, it does
> strike a nerve.
>
> --
> Lamar Owen
> WGCR Internet Radio
> 1 Peter 4:11