Re: Upgrade to RedHat 9.0 broke PostgreSQL

From: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
To: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com (Joshua Drake), pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Upgrade to RedHat 9.0 broke PostgreSQL
Date: 2003-04-21 02:00:16
Message-ID: 200304202200.16883.lamar.owen@wgcr.org
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On Sunday 20 April 2003 13:05, Joshua Drake wrote:
> Well this is a RedHat foobar. In reality, Red Hat should have a check
> to see if a previous version of PostgreSQL is installed via RPM and if
> so, don't install the new version. At a minimum they should warn you.

The RPM dependencies are set to conflict with previous versions for the
postgresql-server package. Unfortunately, the version of RPM shipped with
RHL9 doesn't honor a Conflicts against the same package.... :-( I _know_ my
RPMset has that header set.
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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