Re: [HACKERS] SRPM for 8.0.0 beta?

Joe Conway wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Well, *Marc* is working on including less stuff; the rest of us don't
>> necessarily agree.  In particular I've got to re-incorporate any major
>> pieces that get removed from the core distribution, since people expect
>> to find those in the RPM set.  (In principle I suppose they could be
>> handled as independent packages with independent specfiles, but so far
>> the path of least resistance has been to keep 'em bundled together.)
>>
>
> On that, note that I specifically removed jdbc and tcl options from
> the spec file because the 8.0.0 release notes said they were removed
> from the distribution. I suppose at lease jdbc should be put back? It
> didn't seem right to include the 7.4 jdbc jars in the 8.0 source rpm,
> and I wasn't sure where to get the equivalent of 8.0.0beta1 jdbc jar
> files (if such a thing even exists).
>
>

ISTM we need an S/RPM project on pgfoundry, just like the Windows
installer project. (and maybe a .deb and a Solaris .pkg project too).

cheers

andrew