Re: What Linux edition we should chose?

Hi,

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 06:59 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> Self compilation has the advantage of custom gcc flags like -O3 -march
> -msse, etc. which can improve performance.

I started to think that you have zero idea about building binary
packages.

> Building RPMs is not a task that everyone can do. It requires
> extensive reading about rpmbuild and writing the specfile.

Really?

http://people.planetpostgresql.org/devrim/index.php?/archives/44-How-To-Build-Your-Own-PostgreSQL-and-related-software-RPMs-on-CentOSRHELFedora.html

I can't see anything except svn co and make build there. Do you still
need an extensive reading?

> So if you install directly from source without RPM, it won't satisfy
> the libpq.so dependency, so you cannot install applications using yum.
> This is not the case with Arch PKGBUILD, because the PKGBUILD is just
> a bash script.

Now I'm sure that you don't have any idea about PostgreSQL RPM packages:

http://svn.pgrpms.org/browser/rpm/redhat/8.4/compat-postgresql/EL-5

might give you a clue.

You may think that ArchLinux is fine for you, but please pick up correct
arguments for RPMs first.

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