> I'm building Debian packages for slony1, and I'm a bit confused about
> the installation layout.  It seems that Slony jumps through considerable
> hoops to make its installation layout match the PostgreSQL installation.
> This screws me up in multiple ways, and I could not
> identify any technical reason for it.
>
> I find it particularly strange that the configure script insists on
> finding postgresql.conf.sample in the installation directory.  The
> PostgreSQL "share" directory is a private package directory and it goes
> against all file system standards to write files into another package's
> private installation directories.

*snip*

Stephen Frost is also working on a Debian package. Our buildsystem had
a lot of 'quirks' that make/made packaging hard. That is why I've
committed a lot of fixes to cvs -HEAD.

Please test this version and see if you still run in to these problems.
The fixes will be backported to the -STABLE tree in a few days, given
that there aren't any problems found in -HEAD.

You can always join #slony if things are not working the way you like it,
so we can try things out a little easier.


-Niels