Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:53:32 -0700 From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: [EXPERIMENTAL] New postgresql ports Message-ID: <13E719C4-26E1-11D9-8085-000A956B6386@FreeBSD.org>
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As promised (threatened? :), I've been working on a fold-out of the
existing postgresql ports into true -client/-server/-contrib/-docs
ports, for both 7.4.x (currently 7.4.6) and the upcoming 8.0 (currently
8.0-beta4).
Before reading any further, ask yourself the following questions:
(1) do I know how ports work (in good detail)?
(2) do I know how postgresql works (again, in good detail)?
(3) do I care if my postgresql database gets shot into a million tiny
little pieces by this (ie: a spare devel box).
If you didn't answer YES to all three above, then this is not (yet)
ready for you -- it's highly experimental and most likely WILL eat your
database, set fire to your network, choke you with some multimode
fiber, and run off with your first-born.
That said, however, the 7.4.x ports are based off of internal ports
that have been running in anger for some considerable time now -- I
make no such warranties for 8.0 :)
What's been done:
* split of ports into -client, -server, -contrib and -docs for both
7.4.x and 8.0.x
(note 7.2.x and 7.3.x will almost certainly never be modified into
the new world order,
please upgrade to 7.4 :)
* use of OPTIONS and UNIQUENAME to ensure that all parts of the
postgresql system get built
with the same flags.
To do:
* incorporate kerberos hooks into the framework - I don't run kerberos
here, so it's
somewhat difficult to test. Should be relatively trivial to add in
later.
* incorporate CONFLICTS checking - currently, there isn't any.
* once postgresql 8.0 has a newer shared-lib version that 7.4.x,
implement USE_POSTGRESQL=
* hack, slash, and otherwise maim other ports into USE_POSTGRESQL.
The port infrastructure can be found here:
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ade/pgsql-split.tar.bz2
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ade/pgsql-split.tar.bz2.md5
MD5 (pgsql-split.tar.bz2) = f8f9b601ca560166e14cc6deb0c028aa
extract into ${PORTSDIR}/databases on your machine (these are new
ports, so it won't overwrite
anything - yet), and you'll end up with the following new ports:
postgresql74-client
postgresql74-contrib
postgresql74-docs
postgresql74-server
postgresql80-client
postgresql80-contrib
postgresql80-docs
postgresql80-server
Feedback greatly appreciated.
-aDe
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