postgresql-contrib 8.4.0

[Sean McAfee]

Mel Flynn wrote:
> On Thursday 09 July 2009 08:51:32 Sean McAfee wrote:
>> Mel Flynn wrote:
>>> On Thursday 09 July 2009 04:50:41 Sean McAfee wrote:
>>>> Thanks for fixing this, but I think that eliminating the ability to use
>>>> a feature is just as unacceptable.
>>> I'm more interested in how you guys got xorg-libraries to depend on uuid
>>> in the first place. It doesn't for me and I don't see how it could (not
>>> in RUN_DEPENDS and no mention of e2fs in Mk/*).
>>> Unfortunately, the two libraries aren't interchangeable.
>> As far as I can tell, it's pulled in by patches for x11/libSM.
> 
> And libSM is not mentioned in the OP's pkg_info, which it should be. Also:
> x11/libSM/files/patch-src_sm_genid.c
> eliminates libuuid dependencies by using the base uuid(3), which has existed 
> since 2002.
> 
> As far as I can tell, your ports-mgmt software has been overprotecting this 
> dependency.
> Of course, there's a more valid conflict with net/samba3+WITH_DNS_UPDATE.

Eh, however it happened, I'm not too worried since X and PgSQL don't 
live together around here.

My main concern is that the fix resulted in an inability to use the UUID 
features of Pg8.4 in a stock ports tree.

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Sean McAfee
System Engineer