Re: 7.2b3 pg_dump, general 7.2b3 comments

Lamar Owen wrote:

> Hmmm. You know, it would be a good idea, IMHO, to enable debugging symbols in 
> the beta RPMs anyway.  So, I will do that for the next beta (or release 
> candidate -- although, with that report from Jan, I wonder what the next 
> release will be).
> 
> In the meantime, Joe, if you can rebuild the RPM from source, here's what to 
> do:
> 1.)    rpm -i the source RPM.
> 2.)    If you've never built from a source RPM before, see 
> /usr/share/docs/postgresql-7.2b3/README.rpm-dist for some more information.
> 3.)    Edit the spec file (on Red Hat, that would be in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS, 
> name of 'postgresql.spec'), adding the following line near the top:
> %define __os_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
> 4.)    Add the configure option.  The rpm build process by default runs strip on 
> the binaries.....
> 5.)    rpm -ba postgresql.spec, wait a few minutes for the build, and pick up 
> your RPMs in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386.
> 
> Or you can just wait until I upload a set with that line in it..... :-)
> 


Thanks for the instructions, Lamar -- that helps quite a bit. I'll give 
this a try next week.

Joe