Re: 7.1 RPMs

Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> Hi Lamar. What are the plans for RPMs? Do we have an "integrated RPM"
> which will work with Mandrake, or should I keep carrying along my
> patches to make the spec file work for now?

I haven't addressed that as yet.  Is it safe to assume that -ffast-math
should be Considered Harmful in the RPM_OPT_FLAGS?  Is -ffast-math
_ever_ a Good Thing for our routines?  I can easily enough strip out
-ffast-math from the flags for all cases (xarg -n 1 grep -v
ffast-math|xargs is your friend....).

While I don't plan on following the Mandrake Way WRT repackaging our
tarball with bzip2, the source RPM should use whatever compression for
the man pages that the buildrootpolicy for that distribution supplies.
> How are you planning on packaging the hardcopy docs? They are not yet
> available, but will be Real Soon Now :(

In the postgresql-docs subpackage, along with the SGML source.  The html
built docs made from the SGML source is still going into the main
tarball, as they are nice and browseable in their standard location.

If I release a -1 RPM without the hardcopy, I can release a -2 with....

I have a couple of patches from Trond to integrate, and a decision to
make regarding the contribs: should all the contrib tree go into one big
RPM (860KB or so),or should each contrib directory get its own RPM
(reminiscent of the PM3 binary RPM monster)?  One patch from Trond has
been duplicated by Karl: which patch allows building as non-root again.

There's also a question about the Python client -- it would be good if
someone who has downloaded one of the RC RPM's could test that, as I'm
not a snake charmer. :-)

Also, I need either a standard way to build the java stuff (meaning my
own JDK that is reasonably standard by consensus -- kaffe ships with
RedHat 7.0 -- isthat an acceptable JDK-substitute?) or someone needs to
package 7.1 JDBC jars for my packaging pleasure.  I'm running low enough
on disk space on my devel machines (one of which is a notebook) to make
my own JDK a second choice.

Oliver, what are doing with the JDBC client?
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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