Re: Probable documentation errors or improvements

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
> I left out these changes in sepgsql docs:

>> --- a/doc/src/sgml/sepgsql.sgml
>> +++ b/doc/src/sgml/sepgsql.sgml
>> @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Policy from config file:        targeted
>> <para>
>> To build this module, include the option <literal>--with-selinux</literal> in
>> your PostgreSQL <literal>configure</literal> command.  Be sure that the
>> -   <filename>libselinux-devel</filename> RPM is installed at build time.
>> +   <filename>libselinux-devel</filename> package is installed at build time.
>> </para>

> It's true that the sentence is unusually distro-specific, but I think
> second instance of this becomes ambiguous if we just change RPM to package:

There's also the fact that the package name "libselinux-devel" is itself
Red Hat specific --- Debian-based distros would call it something else,
even assuming that they have an exact equivalent which they might not.
The other advice you mention is also pretty RH-specific.

            regards, tom lane