Solaris currently stores messages into separate directories like
/usr/postgres/8.3/share/locale which solves multiversion problem, but it brings
another problem, because gettext on solaris needs extra directory infrastructure.
I think debians patch is good approach.
Zdenek
Peter Eisentraut napsal(a):
> One issue with packaged multiple-version installations (practiced by
> Debian, Solaris, and soon Fedora?) is that the mo files (translation
> files) should be in a fixed location like /usr/share/locale, which does
> not allow PostgreSQL-version specific subdirectories.
>
> The Debian packages solve this by appending a version number to the mo
> files themselves, as can be seen in this patch:
>
>
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~pitti/postgresql/debian-8.3/annotate/127?file_id=03gettextdomains.pat-20060925215343-vp3e1xxgtg0tzea6-45
>
>
> Solaris packaging is currently looking for a solution, and the Fedora
> initiative might as well? So I figured we could adopt something like
> the above patch as a built-in solution, as a build option or even by
> default.
>
> Comments?