Tom Lane wrote:
Kevin Murphy <murphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Speaking as a near-ignoramus, would a simple RPM that wraps the binary
jar file make sense?
Sure, if you want to do it that way. We did in fact do it that way up
till about 8.0. We (or at least I) moved away from it because of Red
Hat's policy that source RPMs should contain only, well, source.
But if you roll your own you certainly need not be bound by that
ideology.
After looking in more detail at what the gcj packages install, I've
decided it's no big deal to just use Devrim's
postgresql-jdbc-8.3.603-1PGDG.rhel5.x86_64.rpm package as is.
While the java-1.4.2-gcj-compat and libgcj RPMs are needlessly
installed, they don't interfere with Rocks' Java metapackage (roll), as
I had feared.
Thanks for the responses,
Kevin Murphy
