Postgresql 8.1.x on CentOS 3.6

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Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
> 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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One safer way is to   rebuild the  PostgreSQL  SRPMS  on CentOS 3  and  
see if there's no problem  but again  you need to rebuild all the other 
SRPMS  that depend on PostgreSQL ..
and make this every time an  update is issued.

Leonel


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