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Subject: Re: [PORTS] [GENERAL] Redhat RPMs
Reply-To: Andrew Overholt <overholt(at)redhat(dot)com>
In-Reply-To: <200310141315(dot)18492(dot)lowen(at)pari(dot)edu>

Lamar Owen once said:
> On Friday 10 October 2003 08:52 pm, Christopher Browne wrote:
> > Oops! nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk ("Nigel J. Andrews") was seen
> spray-painting on a wall:
> > > I've not looked at many RPMs but I must say that the few I have have
> > > never been relocatable. Can the postgresql RPMs not be made
> > > relocatable?

I tried this once but had many issues with initdb and a few others IIRC.
The locations of data directories and such was being hard-coded in them at
compile time and I had to do a lot of sed-ing in the specfile to make it
work. I know I accomplished that but ended up hitting a wall with
something ... I'll look in my old mail to remind myself what it was.

> It wasn't at that time implemented due to political factors (read: the then
> Red Hat maintainer (@redhat.com) refused to include such support even if I

I don't think that applies anymore :) David Jee is the current maintainer
and I'm sure that he'd be open to such suggestions. I've CC'd him.

Andrew