On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 08:57:19AM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:38:20PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 09:42:51PM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > here are new ports for barman (http://pgbarman.org) and repmgr > > > (http://repmgr.org). See > > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2012-07/msg00011.php for > > > more information about those tools - barman is a backup and recovery > > > tool for psql written in python, and repmgr is a ha and replication > > > manager for psql clusters. > > > barman tarball has a port of a dependency, py-argh. I didnt bother > > > copying the sample config file to ${SYSCONFDIR} nor create dedicated > > > users nor write a README, but if needed and if there's interest those > > > can be easily done. Tested lightly here (ie starts, and fiddled with > > > > What's the point in making a package at all then? > > Because i can, and those were one-shot 1h-ports ? :p > > for barman, i think no special user is needed since it doesnt run as a > daemon - the provided README should be enough, no special needs for > OpenBSD so why making a specific README ?
I don't know :) You wrote it in a way that a README would be needed but that you didn't care to do it. If none are needed, then fine. My point was just that if we create a package for something it should work out-of-the-box as much as possible. > I'm just tossing those ports here to see if there's interest in them to > get them imported, in that case they'll be polished. Fair enough; it just wasn't clear to me in your initial mail. -- Antoine
