Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 15:39:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Thomas Good <tomg@nrnet.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing and Running PostgreSQL Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905281536500.11808-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> 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?! ;-) > > > > I don't see why (if the builder does the regression tests) we would > > hesitate to make them available...it's nice to have the PG src tree > > but it's also nice to get your database happening asap and the db > > binaries are a fraction of the size of the src tree. > > 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? Adding users automatically is Evil Bad. You can create an INSTALL script that's run after the package is added (and remove the NO_PACKAGE flag in the Makefile), but we aren't willing to do this in a wide distribution. In this case, you know what you're getting into :-) Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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