Re: BUG #15768: Removed rpms and now require /etc/redhat-release

On 2019-Apr-18, Matt Harter wrote:

> Well whether or not it is officially supported, it still works on amazon linux, and since their default repositories are behind on postgres (which of course is really an amazon limitation) we have to manually add the repository. Since the recent change that added a required dependency (which is clearly NOT required for amazon linux), our previously working deploy pipelines are now blocked/broken. We have temporarily mitigated the issue by using rpm and explicitly ignoring the repositories dependencies, but that seems like a band-aid fix for the real problem which is that dependency shouldn’t be there. Why does a repository need to enforce the os it is on? If a consumer wants to do something “wrong” or against the documented way to do things, their issues are their problem.

I agree, and adding such a dep sounds like a strange change to make.
What was the rationale for that?

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