Re: Compiling to RPM setup/filesystem layout

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On Thursday 31 May 2001 15:59, Gerald Gutierrez wrote:
> I'm patiently waiting for the 7.1.2 RPMs to be released. Since there's no
> indication when they may be ready, I'd like to try compiling PostgreSQL
> myself.

Oooo... Saturday afternoon.  I'm making a few changes to the build that I
need to test before releasing, so expect a release Saturday.

> Unfortunately, I can't just "compile" since I need to be able to replace my
> current 7.0.3 installation, installed via RPMs. How do I go about this so I
> don't mess everything up (leftover files and such, in addition to the
> mandatory pg_dump) ? Also, how do I ensure that when future RPMs come out,
> I can just use the RPMs and upgrade a compiled version?

If you want to go to a from source distribution, do the following:
pg_dumpall your whole database to somewhere other than /var/lib/pgsql.
rpm -qa|grep ^postgresql
rpm -e all-of-the-postgresql-rpms-you-found
rm -rf /var/lib/pgsql
Install from source into /usr/local/pgsql just like you want to.

If you have other RPM's that depend upon the PostgreSQL RPM's provides, then
you have a bigger problem.  The easiest way to deal with that is waiting
until Saturday and downloading the new version.

But even then you need to do a full dump of your data!
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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