Re: 7.3.3 upgrade with RPMs on RH 8.0

On Friday 25 July 2003 19:48, Richard Welty wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 12:12:48 -0400 (EDT) Richard Welty
<rwelty@averillpark.net> wrote:
> > i'm trying to figure out an error message i enoountered while upgrading
> > a RH8.0 system from 7.3.2 to 7.3.3 using RPMs.
>
> ok, i discovered a mistake in my original report. i wasn't trying to
> install
>
> > postgresql-pl-7.3.3-1PGDG.i386.rpm
>
> i was trying to install
>
> postgresql-contrib-7.3.3
>
> when i got
>
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >  perl(Pg) is needed by postgresql-contrib-7.3.3-1PGDG
>
> and the following is still correct:
> > this confused me, because i thought the perl stuff was installed:
> >
> > rpm -qa | grep perl
> > ..
> > perl-5.8.0-55
> > ..
> > perl-DBI-1.30-1
> > perl-DBD-Pg-1.13-5
> > ..
>
> so who supplies perl(Pg) for postgresql-contrib if it doesn't come from
> postgresql-pl or from perl-DBD-Pg-1.13-5?
>
> should i just rpm -ivh --nodepends and hope? right now my development
> system is broken because i need pgcrypto and it's part of contrib...

Should be safe to nodeps it. There is (was?) a "Pg" module for perl separate
from the DBD-Pg but it shouldn't interfere with the crypto stuff (it's in C
iirc). You're not the only one to get bitten by this - see archives for
details.
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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd