On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:50:08 +0530, Viji V Nair wrote:
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Tom Lane tgl@redhat.com wrote:
Please do NOT give it a name starting with "postgresql-". That would cause great confusion because people couldn't tell which RPMs originate with postgresql itself and which originate from other packages.
As Michel said there are many packages in the repo starts with postgresql-*, all of them are not a part of the actual postgresql. Eg: postgresql-pgpool
We need to correct them as well, if possible :)
Yup. pgRouting also provides rules for doing Debian packages, but there does not appear to be any official Debian release yet:
http://packages.debian.org/search? keywords=pgrouting&searchon=all&suite=all§ion=all
so we don't have to follow their postgresql-X.Y-pgrouting naming. In any case, the Debian situation is probably different enough, in that they have several PostgreSQL versions (like we have two Python stacks) and parallel-installable PostgreSQL-dependent packages have to be prefixed to avoid confusion.
In this case I'd defer to Tom as both a PostgreSQL developer and a Red Hat employee :)
Thanks,