| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | als(at)usenet(dot)thangorodrim(dot)de |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Upcoming re-releases |
| Date: | 2006-02-09 15:10:14 |
| Message-ID: | 43EB5B56.9050609@dunslane.net |
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Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>At least two of the distributions I use
>regularly (Gentoo and Debian) have the habit of adding a load of patches
>during package build. And not all of those go back to the upstream, to
>put it mildly ...
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>
>
And they are not always sensible. A while back the Gentoo packagers
decided to "improve" the messages from initdb - the patch they applied
was completely erroneous, and I believe they have now fixed it.
I tend to be suspicious of distro applied patches. (I do like the change
to use log rotation that recent Rh/Fedora packages have made.)
cheers
andrew
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