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
