Re: [Gnumed-devel] cross bootstrapping at its best

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:30:22PM +0200, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:

> I grabbed the postgresql installer from http://www.postgresqlformac.com/ and 
> installed it. It actually gives you a nice set of graphical client tools to 
> start/stop the server.
> 
> Because I didn't know where the installer put the files and the bootstrapper 
> for the mac was not yet quite ready I used cross bootstrapping.
> 
> Linux came to my rescue. I simply changed the destination IP address for the 
> Mac in the bootstrap conf files and started bootstrap-latest.sh
>
> It complained that the mac doesn't let me connect so i had to change the 
> pg_hba.conf in /Library/PostgreSQL8/data/ to accept incoming coonections from 
> my trusty linux.
Yes, given appropriate access rights and the proper target
IP the bootstrapper should just work. It was written to not
assume it is bootstrapping locally.

Karsten
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