Re: RPM: Contrib request.

Lamar Owen writes:

> It has been requested that I ship prebuilt contrib items in the 7.1
> RPMset. Currently, the source code of the whole contrib tree is being
> shipped in the main RPM as documentation,

It doesn't work to build contrib items without a source tree available.
(At least Makefile.global and Makefile.shlib are necessary.)

> Now, I see a couple of different ways I can go about doing this -- I can
> build a large 'postgresql-contrib' RPM (which would also eliminate the
> source of the contrib tree in the documentation -- possibly) containing
> the _whole_ tree, prebuilt (possibly in /usr/lib/pgsql (or postgresql --
> I'm not at all settled on the subdir naming scheme) -- OR, I can build
> individual RPMs for each contrib element.

Maybe they could be grouped into a couple of packages.

> But, in the instance of pg_dumplo -- can I get some ideas on it? Should
> it be shipped as a separate package, or in the -server subpackage, or??

It shouldn't be packaged at all because it's not necessary. (pg_dump
dumps large objects.)

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