Re: RPM install weirdness & BugreportPage Bug
Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
From: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
To: Thomas Linden <tom@daemon.de>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-11-02T15:03:00Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Thomas Linden wrote: > I suggest a little bit more investigation and testing before publishing > rpm packages, a rpm package must be installable unless it cannot find a > required package. if this is the case, then this package must be You must put all the RPM's on the same command line invocation, or it won't work. There are circular dependencies in the old packaging, which cannot be rid of unless you upgrade all at once. Although, you may still get problems with the postgresql-data package -- like Thomas said, you may be better off dumping your data then uninstalling the old RPM's, and then installing the new. Are you running RedHat 6.x? RedHat 6.0 shipped PostgreSQL 6.4.2, RH 6.1 shipped 6.5.2, and 6.2 shipped 6.5.3. RedHat 7 shipped 7.0.2. RedHat 5.2 was the last RedHat release that shipped 6.3.2. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11