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1. Release 2 testing RPMS -- includes ALPHA patches.

   Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> — 1999-08-06T22:36:34Z

   Announcing release 2 of the lamar owen (lo) series of testing RPMS
   available now at http://www.ramifordistat.net/postgres.
   
   RPM naming has been changed in this release to hopefully avoid confusion
   with RPMS built by Thomas on ftp.postgresql.org.  
   
   Alpha CPU users should download the src.rpm and build -- please let me
   know of problems.  The patch that is applied is the one developed by
   Uncle George and others, backported and packaged by Ryan Kirkpatrick --
   in fact, it is the EXACT patch set he posted here recently. Other
   architectures do not have the patches applied, thanks to the %ifarch RPM
   directive.
   
   Unless you are running RPMS of version 6.5 or later DO NOT USE 'rpm
   -Uvh' TO UPGRADE -- IT WILL NOT WORK.  Check the rpm_upgrade page on
   Ramifordistat for upgrade instructions.
   
   THESE ARE STILL TESTING -- BETA -- RPMS.  Treat them as such -- please
   give me feedback as to their suitability, bugs, etc.  Bugs that are
   general PostgreSQL bugs, OTOH....
   
   RPM packaging has changed versus 6.4.2 or previous -- note the
   cross-reference list:
   
   Old package             New package
   -----------             -----------
   postgresql              postgresql-server
   postgresql-clients      postgresql, postgresql-jdbc, postgresql-odbc,
                           postgresql-tcl, postgresql-perl,
                           postgresql-python
   postgresql-devel        postgresql-devel
   
   To prevent rogue upgrading, these packages are built to conflict with
   the 'postgresql-clients' package.
   
   Changelog:
   * Fri Aug 6 1999 Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
   - Added alpha patches courtesy Ryan Kirkpatrick and Uncle George
   - Renamed lamar owen series of RPMS with release of #lo
   - Put Ramifordistat as vendor and URL for lamar owen RPM series,
   -- until non-beta release coordinated with PGDG.
   
   * Mon Jul 19 1999 Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
   - Correct some file misappropriations:
   -- /usr/lib/pgsql was in wrong package
   -- createlang, destroylang, and vacuumdb now in main package
   -- ipcclean now in server subpackage
   -- The static libraries are now in the devel subpackage
   -- /usr/lib/plpgsql.so and /usr/lib/pltcl.so now in server
   - Cleaned up some historical artifacts for readability -- left
   references
   -  to these artifacts in the changelog
   
   Enjoy!
   
   Lamar Owen
   WGCR Internet Radio
   
   

2. Re: [PORTS] Release 2 testing RPMS -- includes ALPHA patches.

   Uncle George <gatgul@voicenet.com> — 1999-08-07T00:29:36Z

   Has anyone addressed the 64 bit lseek/tell? how about the filesize
   limitation ( not ) of about 17 gigs? Any sayso if there will be a
   problem when the 2gig/file barrier is broken ?
   gat
   
   
   

3. Re: [PORTS] Release 2 testing RPMS -- includes ALPHA patches.

   Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> — 1999-08-07T01:53:47Z

   Uncle George wrote:
   > 
   > Has anyone addressed the 64 bit lseek/tell? how about the filesize
   > limitation ( not ) of about 17 gigs? Any sayso if there will be a
   > problem when the 2gig/file barrier is broken ?
   > gat
   
   Interesting set of questions -- Ryan may be able to answer them -- I
   have no Alpha yet available to test with.  Like my message said -- these
   are testing RPM's, for which I'm requesting feedback.  
   
   Everyone has their own area of expertise -- and Alpha is NOT mine...
   
   Thanks for the work you did on that code -- and thanks to Ryan for the
   backpatch to 6.5.1.
   
   Lamar Owen
   WGCR Internet Radio