Re: Amazon Linux Support?

Thanks Jeremy,

I tried using the --nodeps but hit problems when trying to use the
repo, such gpg signatures etc.
It's more the fact that you can't add repo's for packages that are
pretty well compatible, where I figured the effort would be reasonably
small.
Thanks for the sed tip, I'll see how I fare with that and work with a
vendored chef recipe for now.

Cheers,

Lewis Shobbrook

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On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 15:09, Jeremy Schneider <schneider(at)ardentperf(dot)com> wrote:
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> > On Apr 30, 2019, at 07:16, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> wrote:
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> >> On 4/30/19 2:02 AM, Lewis Shobbrook wrote:
> >> Hi Guys,
> >> With the repo changes associated with the April 17 changes,
> >> https://pgstef.github.io/2019/04/17/one_rpm_to_rule_them_all.html
> >> It is evident that support for amazon linux has been dropped.
> >> While you can try to use redhat pgdp packages, they are not
> >> installable on Amazon Linux, giving the following error...
> >> /etc/redhat-release is needed by pgdg-redhat-repo-42.0-4.noarch
> >> I confident that the rest rpms available in the repo can be used by
> >> Amazon linux, but the redhat-release dependency is painful for
> >> automation with existing recipes such as postgresql in chef.
> >> Before I invest the effort to produce a pull request to address this,
> >> I wanted to confirm that amazon linux has been dropped and will no
> >> longer, nor likely ever be supported for the rpms repo's, or is it
> >> still on the road map?
> >
> > You will need a community account to see the issue:
> >
> > https://redmine.postgresql.org/issues/4205
> >
> > The relevant part:
> >
> > Updated by Devrim Gündüz 4 days ago
> >
> > "
> > Hi,
> >
> > We dropped Amazon Linux support years ago, there were lots of compatibility issues. The new repo RPMs just reflect that.
> >
> > Please switch to a supported distro, or rebuild RPMs from SRPMS.
> >
> > Regards, Devrim
> >
>
> I've been using the rhel6 repo with AL without issue for a long time now. it looks like they added a new dependency that breaks this, but I recently tested this workaround and it seems to work:
> `rpm -Uvh --nodeps https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/testing/11/redhat/rhel-6-x86_64/pgdg-redhat11-11-2.noarch.rpm`
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> the other thing is that I do is a `s/$releasever/6/g` on `/etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-*.repo` -- i have this all baked into some ansible scripts and my scripts are working fine just now when i spun up a new ec2/postgres test server
>
> -Jeremy
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> Sent from my TI-83
>