On 10/26/05, James B. Byrne <ByrneJB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In case anyone besides me is interested, installing these packages
> on CentOS4.2 seems to work. You can determine the correct mirror
> to use from:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.0.4/linux/rpms/redhat/rhel-
> es-4/
>
> The rpm command that I used was:
>
> rpm --upgrade --nodeps --hash -v <package url>
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Thanks Jim. Very useful guide - used it to upgrade our server to 8.0.4
(7.x.x would've been fine generally but I wanted the new ALTER COLUMN
... ALTER TABLE ... TYPE command). Seems --nodeps was the missing flag
needed to install the packages without complaining about dependencies.
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