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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
> I left out these changes in sepgsql docs:

>> --- a/doc/src/sgml/sepgsql.sgml
>> +++ b/doc/src/sgml/sepgsql.sgml
>> @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Policy from config file:        targeted
>> <para>
>> To build this module, include the option <literal>--with-selinux</liter=
al> in
>> your PostgreSQL <literal>configure</literal> command.  Be sure that the
>> -   <filename>libselinux-devel</filename> RPM is installed at build tim=
e.
>> +   <filename>libselinux-devel</filename> package is installed at build=
 time.
>> </para>

> It's true that the sentence is unusually distro-specific, but I think =

> second instance of this becomes ambiguous if we just change RPM to packa=
ge:

There's also the fact that the package name "libselinux-devel" is itself
Red Hat specific --- Debian-based distros would call it something else,
even assuming that they have an exact equivalent which they might not.
The other advice you mention is also pretty RH-specific.

			regards, tom lane