Re: SuSE RPMs available for PostgreSQL 7.4

Lamar Owen writes:

> The place they were put.  The 'customary place' has been
> v{version}/RPMS/{distribution} so that they would be in
> pub/binary/v7.4/RPMS/suse-{version}.  Their source RPM would go there too.

My reverse engineering attempt at the existing custom went as follows:

I saw

SRPMS        containing a source RPM
distrib-1    above source RPM built for that distribution
distrib-2    above source RPM built for that distribution

So since this RPM set uses a different source RPM, one solution would have
been

SRPMS        containing more than one source RPM
distrib-1    one of the above source RPMs built for that distribution
distrib-2    one of the above source RPMs built for that distribution

But that seems unnecessarily confusing.

You seem to propose this solution:

SRPMS        containing a source RPM
distrib-1    above source RPM built for that distribution
distrib-2    above source RPM built for that distribution
other-distrib    containing different source RPM and binary RPM

But that is assymetric.

So the solution was to put each RPM set, consisting of a source RPM and
binaries built from it, in its own subdirectory.

That solution also has the advantage that if someone wanted to post other
binaries, say for Debian or Solaris, they could become a peer directory of
"suse".  That way, someone looking for binaries could follow the name of
the operating system and would not have to know details about which
packaging system is used.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net