Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On Friday 28 November 2008 18:25:23 Tom Lane wrote:
>> Actually I think the ball is in Peter's court now. Marc updated the
>> snapshot build script, but all the attempts are dying now because the
>> new docbook2man part of the Makefiles doesn't work on svr1.
> As far as I know, the snapshot and release building scripts have always taken
> the existing man.tar.gz from the FTP server and put it into the release
> tarball. This is why the mismatch appeared in the first place, after all. I
> have uploaded an updated and matching man.tar.gz a while ago already, so
> things should be working again.
> This has nothing to do with the new man page build stuff. Anything official
> should still be using the old stuff. And the snapshot build shouldn't be
> building anything either way.
Are you sure you're not remembering How Things Used To Be?
AFAICT, we are building both man.tar.gz and postgres.tar.gz on-the-fly
in current releases. At least, both of them have internal timestamps
supporting that theory in the official 8.3.5 and 8.2.11 tarballs, and
the contained files reflect recent source changes. It looks to me like
the dev snapshot build process has failed to track the official releases.
regards, tom lane