okay, daily snapshots are now being generated on the new server ... right now, all the mirror sites are stale while Vince does some finishing touches on the mirroring scripts/cgi's ... once he gerts that done, then, from my perspective, we'll be ready for beta ...
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Tom Lane wrote: > Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ... I can't find an up-to-date snapshot > > > I tried postgresql.rmplc.co.uk and got one (apparently) dated 7 Oct, however > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION didn't seem to be there (it certainly doesn't > > work anyway - syntax error at OR). I then looked in the primary copy on > > mail.postgresql.org and found the copy there was dated 30 Sept from which I > > assumed that the 07/10/2001 date on rm's copy was actually a US date - that > > site has been seriously out of date before. > > I just downloaded > ftp://ftp.us.postgresql.org/dev/postgresql-snapshot.tar.gz > which has a date of yesterday in the FTP archives, but actually > contains a snapshot from around 15 September as near as I can tell. > Looks like something is hosed in the snapshot preparation process; > Marc, could you take a look at it? > > >> and I don't know the > >> magic that has to be worked on the PostgreSQL CVS version of the > >> configure script in order to make it run without barfing. > > > I always assumed that something is done when the tarballs are built as the > > work just fine on the same machine. > > No, the tarballs should be the same as what you get from a CVS pull > of the same date (other than not having a lot of /CVS subdirectories). > In fact, they're made basically by tar'ing up a CVS checkout. Please > try diffing configure from a tarball against one from CVS to see if you > can figure out what's getting munged during your CVS pull. > > > The only odd thing I can think of is > > that my copy of the source is maintained on my PC using WinCVS and was > > zipped/ftp'd onto a test box. > > LF vs CR/LF newlines leap to mind as a likely source of trouble... > though I'm not sure why that would manifest in just this way... > > regards, tom lane > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
