Re: Question about the contrib rpm ?

Martijn van Oosterhout a écrit :

>On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:17:16PM +0100, DANTE ALEXANDRA wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>We are working with PostGreSQL since november 2005, and ours questions
>>are automatically those of novice persons, that's why your answer
>>suprises us.
>>
>>The aim of our question about the "contrib" rpm was to understand why
>>this package exists, what it is used for, and how generate it. We know
>>that we are building our own rpm, but by doing this, we also test
>>PostGreSQL on an IA64 platform...
>>
>>
>
>Sure. The contrib rpm contains everything in the contrib directory.
>Look in there if you want to see what it is. They have README files.
>
>The reason nobody can help you here is because not a lot of people here
>know anything about rpms at all and thus don't know how to answer your
>question. If you compile the stuff in contrib and include it in your
>main package, fine. It's just seperated out because not everybody needs
>it. It's not part of the core postgresql.
>
>Have a nice day,
>
>

Thank you for your answer.
We will try to generate a "contrib" rpm from the contrib directory on an
IA64 platform with the Intel compiler icc.

Regards,
Agnès & Alexandra