David,
I'm not sure what dependencies the RH-provided PG RPM's have, but I've had
no problems whatsoever installing a series of PG-sourced RPM's from 8.1 on
up to 8.2.3, on CentOS 4 (which is binary-compatible with RHEL4).
Actually, there is one minor glitch; some apps that use PG require an
older version of libpq, but the Postgres website provides a "compat
postgreql libs" for this purpose.
In any case, if you are using the PG-supplied RPM's and you know you're
installing everything, simply run RPM like so:
rpm -i --nodeps postgres-whatever.rpm
I usually use OS-vendor supplied RPMS for things like Apache, except in
cases where the project-supplied RPM's have additional features over and
above the RHEL/CentOS RPM's. Things like Postgres and Python fall under
this category.
Cheers,
-Josh
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, David Bear wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:06:35PM -0400, Joshua Kramer wrote:
David,
I'm getting really mad at RHEL 4. They do not package a recent
postgres in the base distro, and only put 8.1.x in a disk call
lamp-beta... So now I wonder what a 'recommended' way of running
postgresql is -- meaning, any linux distro will do, just build it --
Why not just download the RHEL4 packages from the Postgres mirrors? PG
runs fine for me in that manner, on CentOS-4 (a RHEL rebuild).
Thought of that and then wondered if I would face the same dependancy
issues that using the rpms from redhat gave me. Do you know if redhat
just redistributed the pg rpms? Or, do these rpms actually include
depndancy resolution? For example, trying to install the rpm from
redhat I get a failed dependance for libpq.so.4 --- but I have no idea
what package redhat would have put libpq in... and so it goes. Where
should I spend time? Tracking down dependancies? Or finding a better
host operating system -- at least one packaged with things the pg
needs.
Cheers,
-J
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