Re: upgrading RPM query

lamar.owen@wgcr.org (Lamar Owen) wrote in message news:<01081413350601.01006@lowen.wgcr.org>...
> On Wednesday 08 August 2001 12:15, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > I downloaded the postgresql-7.1.2 rpms and tried to install them - I had 20
> > lines of failed dependancies.  I downloaded the RPMS for those, and ended
> > up with  70+ lines of failed dependancies.
>
> The current PGDG RPMset will work just fine on RedHat 7.1.  There is no need
> to get anything else, as RH 7.1 is what I build them on (for now).
>
> Currently the PGDG set is almost identical to what RedHat has in Rawhide.
>
> As to rebuilding from SRPMS, if you have enough to compile from the tarball
> you simply:
> rpm --rebuild postgresql-7.1.2-4PGDG.src.rpm
> and pick up your binary RPMs from /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386.
>
> Much simpler than a hand compile, at least on RedHat 7.1.

QUESTION:
Would that method apply to a SuSE 6.4 distribution.
I have had the same bad luck trying to use the binary rpm's
with the latest 7.1 release.
Thanks for any light shed on this "library hell".
John Turner