Re: 8.02 rpm error

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)surnet(dot)cl>
Cc: Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>, Lamar Owen <lowen(at)pari(dot)edu>, Volkan YAZICI <volkan(dot)yazici(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 8.02 rpm error
Date: 2005-05-20 19:47:33
Message-ID: 428E3ED5.7070703@commandprompt.com
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> Now, the problem with 8.0.2/8.0.3 is that we forgot to bump the soname
> before shipping 8.0, so we shipped a bogus libpq.so.3 which is really
> libpq.so.4, with a wrong soname. How to fix? Maybe we should provide a
> libpq3 package with the libraries coming from the REL_7_4_STABLE cvs
> branch.

I was just thinking about this today. Typically Redhat will have a
postgresql-libs-compat which would contain libpq.so.3. They haven't had
to do this in the past with PostgreSQL but they do it with others such
as glibc.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>

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