Re: Status of 1.4

[Philip Rhoades <..hidden..>]

Chris,


On 2012-02-15 16:24, Chris Travers wrote:
> Hi Philip;
>
> Important work on 1.4 for better RPM installs have already been done
> but more needs to be done.
>
> We have already removed dependencies to PostgreSQL 
> contrib/extensions.
> I am pushing for a policy that contrib/extensions should only be used
> on LedgerSMB extensions and not by the core software.  This will
> allow us to have two RPMs, one of which will list postgresql-server 
> as
> a dependency and the other will only list the client libraries.
>
> Note that the above only works for PostgreSQL 8.4 or higher.  We
> cannot backport this to 1.3 because if we do we have to drop support
> for PostgreSQL 8.3.  I dont see this happening.
>
> The above change has also resulted in significant performance gains 
> in
> affected areas.


Is there something I can test?


> There are, however, a few other areas to address.  It isnt clear
> whether these can be backported to the standard branch but they will
> be done as well.
>
> The first is that Config::Std really doesnt seem to be as well
> supported on various packages as I would like.  We need to figure out
> how best to approach this.  One option would be, since this is a pure
> Perl module, to just include it in the RPM in the local install.
>  Another option would be to change the config parsing to a different
> module.  This would probably not be a big job.


perl-Config-Std seems like something to be eliminated from my point of 
view . .


> The final thing that needs to be done is that we need a tool that can
> try to validate installation configuration and correct if possible
> without going through the whole build process.


Yes, I realise that my desire for a fully RPM-based install may not be 
possible and that some post RPM processing may be necessary.  I am not 
sure what the best solution to that issue is - I haven't come across 
something similar with other packages.


>  Either that or we
> need to make a decision that we will require the build-requires
> modules as well as the modules required for use.  The build-requires
> include Test, Test::More, and Test::Exception.  Either of these
> approaches could be done in the stable branch.
>
> Any feedback on these approaches, or other things you think need to 
> be
> done are worth noting, however.


Really, I just need to get something going - as a means of trying to 
debug the latest RPM install problem (setup.pl not finding stuff in 
/usr/share/pgsql/contrib) I went back to a manual tar.gz install (on a 
clean virtual machine) but had other problems with that and eventually 
gave up.  A working LSMB RPM is ideal for me but I have to get some 
actual accounting work done soon.

Regards,

Phil.
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