Bug#406935: another evaluation: 1.3.15-2
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 13:38 -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:24:29 -0400, Robert James Clay <jame@rocasa.us> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 17:06 -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> >
> > > The darn contrib directory
> > > ==========================
> > >
> > > I still had to configure the contrib_dir. Now I know I had to, but even
> > > then: I forgot, so I hit this cryptic message in the web interface:
> I think this could be improved by having sane defaults. If we disregard
> backports, there's generally only one version of postgresql in stable
> Debian releases:
>
> * lenny: 8.3
> * squeeze: 8.4
> * wheezy: 8.4 and 9.1 (but is testing)
I'd forgotten that 8.4 is actually still available in wheezy...<g>
The default is 9.1, so that's certainly the version to assume.
> * sid: 8.4, 9.0, 9.1...
>
> So that could be changed so that, for example, the .conf shipped in
> sid/wheezy would be for 9.1 contrib and so hardcode that path, while the
> backport would have a modified .conf file for 8.4..
That's what I've been planning on doing, although I hadn't thought as
far as what would be needed for a backport. The file itself is already
being patched for other reasons (updates for other directories), so this
could just be added to it.
Jame
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