Re: [Postgres-xc-developers] RPM Packaging XC

[David E. W. <da...@ju...>]

On Jan 22, 2014, at 6:16 PM, Koichi Suzuki <koi...@gm...> wrote:

> Thank you very much for the effort and sorry for the late response.
> I agree on your points.   Yes, as PG, tarball directory should be
> postgres-xc-1.1 or so.   Please let me change this in the following
> releases.

I also suggest you make it 1.1.0 in the future, so that the format is the same if you later release 1.1.1.

> As per documents, release tarballs include html and man.   Which is in
> doc-xc/src/sgml, not in doc.    They all comes with XC-specific stuff
> as well as differences as you found in XC pages.   The location of
> docs is not described clearly in the notes, which need to improve.

Ahhhh! There they are! I will fix the spec file today.

> We should consider the target installation directory especially when
> XC coexists with PG.    Michael Meskes had similar problem in XC
> packaging for Debian and I hope he has some experience and ideas on
> this.

I’ve been chatting with Jeff Frost and Devrim GÜNDÜZ about it, too. Devrim seems to think that there should be a separate XC yum repo, perhaps under the postgres-xc.com domain.

> I need to maintain corresponding PG docs for work and for merge
> process, it's convenient to have XC docs in a different directory.
> Do you think original PG docs should not be a part of XC release?

No, if the XC docs are a superset of the PG docs, then you don't need to build and ship the PG docs. Might make sense to not ship their SGML at all. Maybe `rm -rf doc && mv doc-xc doc`.

> On the other hand I'm worrying is Mason Sharp has already published
> his rpms for linux 64bit and 32bit at his stormDB page.     I don't
> know how long he can continue this work and it will be nice if you
> visit his page and see how we can work together.

Ah-ha! I was not aware of this. Seems like quite a bit of overlap.

  http://yum.stormdb.com/repos/Postgres-XC/1.1.0/centos64/

> Please understand I highly appreciate for efforts of XC packaging,
> which is a great help for XC deployment.
> 
> Mason, any more inputs?

We should certainly collaborate to create a “community” repo, I think. Thoughts?

BTW, I also created a separate gtm RPM.

  https://github.com/theory/postgres-xc-rpm/commit/f94354a0365f15fa6850d24024bb5a59d2b202d8

Best,

David