| From: | Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> |
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| To: | nelson-m-marques(at)ext(dot)ptinovacao(dot)pt |
| Cc: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #6341: Packaging - virtual provides "postgres" without version |
| Date: | 2011-12-26 14:51:21 |
| Message-ID: | 1324911081.2049.7.camel@lenovo01-laptop03.gunduz.org |
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On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 16:27 +0000, nelson-m-marques(at)ext(dot)ptinovacao(dot)pt
wrote:
>
> Is there a special reason for having a virtual provides without
> versioning?
PGDG RPMs in RHEL 6 can be installed in parallel, i.e., you can have 8.4
+ on the same machine. OTOH, os supplied RPMs does not have any version
number, and there are lots of packages that need postgresql-libs or
postgresql, etc. We "Provide" version-less packages to satisfy os
dependencies.
Regards,
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ
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