On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Reini Urban wrote:
> Igor Peshansky schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just noticed that the size of postgresql-client-8.0.7-1.tar.bz2 (the
> > curr version) is set to 0. Is that intentional? It doesn't seem to
> > break setup, but is something to look into, nonetheless.
>
> Yes, that's on purpose.
> There are three main packages: postgresql, libpq4 and postgresql-client.
> All three of them have existing curr and test packages. The two client
> packages should have correct cross-dependencies.
>
> 1. Empty not to conflict with the existing postgresql-8.0.7-1, which has
> all the client binaries.
> 2. Existing, because when installing postgresql-client-8.0.7-1 after
> having installed 8.1.4-2, to pull in the correct dependencies.
Hmm, the usual way of doing this is creating an empty .tar.bz2 archive,
which is not 0 bytes (it's something like 46). I'm surprised setup
doesn't croak on a 0-byte archive file. Oh, well...
Igor
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