Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 08:18:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Good <tomg@nrnet.org> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing and Running PostgreSQL Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990528080654.11167A-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org> In-Reply-To: <199905280156.UAA53656@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Thu, 27 May 1999, David Kelly wrote:
> Thomas Good writes:
> > Now can we get PG binaries online somewhere?! ;-)
>
> Thought I'd try it. This is how one makes a binary package out of a
> port:
>
> % cd /ports/databases/postgresql/
> % make USE_TCL=yes package
> ===> postgresql-6.4.2 may not be packaged: Requires pgsql uid.
> %
>
> Apparently it blows up because the package system does not yet support
> the creation/addition of new user id's. Or maybe there is some good
> reason a package can not create a user account?
David - what about a shell script that does the same thing? When I cp'd
the binaries from my production box to my laptop I did this:
1) tar the /usr/local/pgsql dir tree as root
2) unpack the tarball
3) useradd postgres
4) chown -R postgres.(group) /usr/local/pgsql
5) update ld conf...
6) add env vars to /etc/profile
7) login as postgres, initdb
8) as postgres, fire up the server
9) createuser...
If the binaries were available with a shell script or a brief doc
it would be easy enough to setup. I do this with Slackware and
PostgreSQL.org offers Solaris binaries...
God knows I wish I had had binaries for my UnixWare box. That was
an ordeal to get going. By comparison, FreeBSD was cake.
Tom
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