Re: About the partial tarballs

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Marko Karppinen <marko(at)karppinen(dot)fi>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: About the partial tarballs
Date: 2003-11-11 22:48:37
Message-ID: 20031111184523.D56037@ganymede.hub.org
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On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Marko Karppinen wrote:

> I agree that the partial tarballs can confuse an ftp user, though. I
> think a good solution to this would be to put them one level deeper,
> into a subfolder. The full tarball would then be the only thing a casual
> user would encounter, but the source-based port systems could still
> benefit from the partial tarballs.

I don't agree, but if you can suggest improved working to:

ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/README.dist-split

to reduce the confusion, that would be great. I've just symlink'd it into
the source directories as the .message, so that its displays when you
enter the directory ...

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