Re: Linux Downloads page change

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From: Scott Mead <[email protected]>
To: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Cc: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Linux Downloads page change
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 05:13:21 -0400
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On Jul 9, 2012 4:42 AM, "Magnus Hagander" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Dave Page <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2012-07-07 at 23:05 -0400, Scott Mead wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > That reminds me... Why do we give link to some binary RPMs, where
> >>> SRPMs
> >>> > are not available?
> >>>
> >>> Those RPMs are built using the certified binaries that the community
> >>> distributes already, but simplifies installation in deeply
> >>> firewalled / headless server environments.  They also allow for
> >>> side-by-side installs of major versions ( pg_upgrade compatible ) and
> >>> have since their inception.
> >>
> >> That is not an answer to my question. Why don't you distribute the
SRPM?
> >> How can someone make sure that the RPMs do not include some more extra
> >> code?
> >
> > I assume the SRPM isn't provided because the binaries that are
> > packaged are actually the ones that EDB build (and I wouldn't be
> > surprised if they're generated with BitRock InstallBuilder, so there
> > wouldn't be an SRPM anyway).
>

+1

> BitRock can generate RPMs these days? Neat!
>
>
> > That aside though, the code must be 100% open source to be listed on
> > those download pages; Scottie, where can people find the spec files,
> > BitRock XML files or whatever?

  In the past we have always provided them upon request ( we were asked
only nce :).  But we can work that out, no problem.

>
> While I agree with that requirement in general, we should apply it
> fairly. AFAICT the latest release of the EDB installers that had
> sourcecode with it was 9.0.2 - I have a hard time seeing that nothing
> would've changed since... None of the changes that have been discussed
> on the lists here in the past couple of months are anywhere to be
> seen.. So should we remove the EDB installers from the page as well?
>
>
> > Also, I took a quick look at the GIT history for the download pages,
> > and as far as I can see there weren't any links to these RPMs in the
> > past, so I'm not sure what has been removed exactly. Scott; can you
> > point me at the commit that changed what you're referring to please?
>
> I assume he's referring to:
> -<p><a href="http://www.openscg.org/postgresql/packages">Download</a;
> the packages from OpenSCG.<
> -<p><i>The multi-platform binary packages are maintained by <a
> href="http://www.openscg.org">Open
>
> from commit b282714a097f767b258e469fb80225b638864a19. They used to be
> on the "generic linux" page, as well as on the "generic downloads
> page". They are now only on the "generic downloads page".

Exactly, this is the link I was talking about.

--Scottie

>
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>  Magnus Hagander
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