| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | gearond(at)cvc(dot)net, Guido Notari <gnotari(at)linkgroup(dot)it>, Postgresql General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Backend often crashing |
| Date: | 2003-04-02 23:21:55 |
| Message-ID: | 20030402232155.GE5214@dcc.uchile.cl |
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On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:59:06PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> This is something that I think RPM distribution largely loses.
> Certainly if you only know how to install binary RPMs, you're dependent
> on the upstream folks to propagate fixes. It might be okay if you build
> from a source RPM --- can anyone comment on how hard it is to merge
> locally-supplied diffs into a source RPM? I've never tried to ...
It's not that hard. With the upstream guys' supplied source RPM and the
open source worker's patch, it's a matter of adding a pointer to the
patch to the SPEC and rebuild. But surely most people used to binary
RPMs hasn't ever built one from SRPM, let alone plain source.
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"In a specialized industrial society, it would be a disaster
to have kids running around loose." (Paul Graham)
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