On 2/16/06, Leonel Nunez <leonel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jim Perrin wrote:
> > This is a BAD IDEA. The rhel4 rpms are built for RHEL4, so if they
> > work, they won't be stable. They're expecting the 2.6 kernel, the libs
> > associated with rhel4 etc. These aren't there in 3.6. If you NEED php5
> > and postgresql 8, you should consider using centos4 and the
> > postgresql8/php5 rpms for centos4. Keep in mind that they're not
> > stock. If you're trying to force them onto your system because you
> > want them, you might give gentoo a try.
>
> Or build from the source tar.gz Postgresql 8.1.3 and PHP 5 and
> all other programs that depend on these 2 and keep them updated every
> time an update is issued on ANY of the packages build from source
> .tar.gz files ..
Thanks for the replies.
Ideally, I'd like to have CentOS 4 running on the system.
Unfortunately, the hosting company that we have our VPS only offers
Centos 3.6.
If I can already find RPMs already for Postgres 8.1.x, it's gonna make
my job a lot easier.
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