Re: Solaris Postgres

Zdenek Kotala wrote:
>> I asked because we're working on an inhouse app using postgres, the team
>> wants to use 8.4...   I had previously packaged 8.3.7 in solaris package
>> format only to have it come out as a patch a month or two later, so I
>> was hoping to save myself the redundant effort.
>>
>
> You can use community build [1] which is compiled similar way as
> official Solaris packages. Or you have to wait to Solaris next release.
>
>

thats what we're using now, and in fact, my packages for 8.3 were built
from the community build prior to it being included in U7 or whatever.

the main thing I miss from the community builds is having the SMF
manifest [1], and I've figured out how to hack my own by using Sun's 8.x
release manifest and methods files as a template..

anyways, thanks for the update.



[1] http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/selfheal/sdev_intro.jsp