Re: RPMs for RedHat ES3.0

Hi,

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Philip Yarra wrote:

> Devrim, I had some problems installing on RedHat ES3.0 with the RPMs. This
> issue turned out to be that I needed the compat libs to provide the old libs
> before I could install the new libs.
>
> I found a link to
> http://developer.PostgreSQL.org/~devrim/compat-postgresql-libs-3-3PGDG.i686.rpm
> in an archived post from -hackers. It wasn't all that obvious what was
> required though, so is it possible that this RPM could actually be put with
> the downloads for the main RPMs? I'm not sure anyone's installation would
> succeed without that RPM on RedHat ES3.0. Please let me know if I'm missing
> something.

We haven't discussed it before, but I think we can't put the RPM among
PGDG RPMs. The main reason is that this is not a piece of software that's
included within that release of PostgreSQL. Also, this compat RPM is not
needed if you don't have a software that needs that RPM.

> As an aside: is it possible to actually to just include the contents of
> compat-libs in postgresql-libs, since they actually seem to be required? It'd
> save me some hassles for future installations. Probably other folks too.

As I wrote above, it does not seem possible.

Also remember that this will be probably 'solved' in RHEL 5 (and FC 5), so
merging compat with main libs package is not a good idea.

Regards,
--
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Tom Lane Wrote:

> (a) wouldn't that require root privilege? (b) how would we=20
> determine whether we are on a system to which this applies? =20
> (c) is it actually documented in a way that makes you think=20
> it'll be a permanently supported feature (ie, somewhere=20
> outside the source code)?

(a) No, /proc/{pid}/* is owned by the process
(b) /proc/{pid}/oom_adj exists ?
(c) No, from the source: (not docbooked, we don't want this one
cluttering up the manual)

... John