Re: RHEL4 RPM packages

Guillaume Smet wrote:
> On 4/11/07, Devrim G=DCND=DCZ <devrim@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 09:17 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
>> > looks like the RPMs for libpq.so.4 and libpq.so.3 can't coexist.
>>
>> Ok, I got lots of complaints about this. I will work on this today and
>> announce new sets.
>
> It's not a real problem IMHO. AFAIR the compat RPMs were designed to
> provide a compatibility layer between newer versions of PostgreSQL and
> the distribution standard packages and you won't have both libpq
> versions used by the distro.
>
> It's probably easy to fix it but I don't think it's so important. At
> least it doesn't prevent anyone to have a working system.

well, it makes it VERY hard to install 8.2.3 on a RHEL4/CentOS4 system=20
that also has, say, RH's build of Apache + PHP + PG access, as thats=20
linked to the -3 libraries

you get into rpm hell very fast going down that path.