Re: moving from contrib to bin

Tom Lane wrote:
> Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de> writes:
> > However, for PostgreSQL this means lengthy debian/*.install files
> > (the equivalent of %files in rpm spec speak):
>
> Right ...
>
> > If there were separate "install-client", "install-server", and
> > "install-contrib" targets, that would probably shorten those files
> > quite a bit. Especially messy is the part where *.so needs to be
> > sorted into server/contrib, along with an similar large bunch of
> > binaries.
>
> Pardon me for not knowing much about Debian packages, but how would
> that work exactly? Is it possible to do make install-client, then
> package the installed files, then rm -rf the install tree, then
> repeat for install-server and install-contrib? In the RPM world
> this would never work because the build/install step happens in
> toto before the packaging step.

Uh, couldn't you just run "make install-client DESTDIR=.../client" for
client-only files, and so on? You would end up with separate
directories containing files for each subpackage.

> Even without that, it seems like it'd be hard to make it entirely
> automatic since some files would be installed in multiple cases (and
> directories even more so).

Yeah, you would need to fix that somehow.

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