Richard Sydney-Smith <richard@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am running Fedora core 4 with nightly "yum" update. Presently it is > not picking up version 8.1 as an upgrade. > 1) If I wait will 8.1 get added to the "yummy" list Nope. FC4 is locked to the PG 8.0.x release series. This goes along with Red Hat's normal approach to release engineering: upgrades do not introduce any significant incompatibilities. PG 8.1 is in Fedora Rawhide == FC5-to-be. > 2) If I add 8.1 via the RPMs will future releases be maintained by "yum" > or do future upgrades have to continue to be done manually via RPM's You can forcibly install any version you like, but it won't be maintained by the Red Hat/Fedora infrastructure if you do --- at that point it's on your own head to update the package as needed. regards, tom lane
