Re: [Gnumed-devel] Please test GNUmed on Mac

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:55:55PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> 1. requiring that the Mac install PostgreSQL despite that there may
> be no intention to run postgres on this local machine...

This seems the technically correct if unfortunate solution.
There really should be a postgresql-client package which
comes with, say, libpq, psql, pg_dump and similar tools and
libraries. That's how it works on Debian:

Package: postgresql-client-8.4
Priority: optional
Section: database
Installed-Size: 3560
Maintainer: Martin Pitt <address@hidden>
Architecture: i386
Source: postgresql-8.4 (8.4.0-2)
Version: 8.4.0-2+b1
Provides: postgresql-client
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libpq5 (>= 8.4~0cvs20090328), libreadline5 (>= 5.2), 
libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8f-5), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg), postgresql-client-common 
(>= 98~)
Suggests: postgresql-8.4, postgresql-doc-8.4
Conflicts: postgresql (<< 7.5)
Filename: pool/main/p/postgresql-8.4/postgresql-client-8.4_8.4.0-2+b1_i386.deb
Size: 1184020
MD5sum: abaef4c95484214e310c7bad9c04cc71
SHA1: 177180e86db5aaa588b7a0d3eaaf1f834a86fa68
SHA256: dfb4e68d0e605b1e7e1cc4015071cb1b03e0cc0f529d47b8c4059d714354182d
Description: front-end programs for PostgreSQL 8.4
 This package contains client and administrative programs for
 PostgreSQL: these are the interactive terminal client psql and
 programs for creating and removing users and databases.
 .
 This is the client package for PostgreSQL 8.4. If you install
 PostgreSQL 8.4 on a standalone machine, you need the server package
 postgresql-8.4, too. On a network, you can install this package on
 many client machines, while the server package may be installed on
 only one machine.
 .
 PostgreSQL is an object-relational SQL database management system.

Karsten
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