On 6/3/2011 1:28 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Friday, June 03, 2011 11:21:35 AM Les Mikesell wrote:
>> I'm talking about what would be
>> more in the best interest of the community that they attracted by
>> permitting redistribution of the collated works - and then cut off.
>
> It's in the best interest of the community to have Red Hat in a financially
> stable position to fund all this good stuff in the first place. If the only
> way Red Hat can be financially viable is for me to give up the pre-EL ways,
> then that's fine by me, especially since Red Hat is rather accommodating in
> terms of the source code.
>
>> Go back and look at the changelogs of programs in the era between the
>> RH 4.x and 9 releases if you don't remember how bad the stuff they initially
>> shipped was or how it got fixed.
>
> Got back and look at the changelogs of the PostgreSQL packages.
Give me a hint about what to look for. As I recall I always installed
postgresql from source in those days because the disto packages were so
far behind or broken. Sort of like apache/mod_perl which was only done
right in the 7.3 release and then broken again in 8.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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