RE: PGDG?

The ability to easily identify builds by packager is a great idea, but in
practice, I discovered last night (earlier this morning) that using such a
filename construct apparently confuses rpm-oriented applications like
RedHats kickstart, which has expectations about the composition of the "."
delimited elements in an rpm filename.

I think I'll just have to quell impatience and laziness and rely on rpm -qPi
or rpm -qPil <package>

tjm

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Peter Eisentraut
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 2:32 AM
To: Lamar Owen
Cc: Tim Mickol; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PGDG?


Lamar Owen writes:

> On Saturday 09 June 2001 20:53, Tim Mickol wrote:
> > what does the element PGDG in an rpm filename, e.g.,
> > postgresql-test-7.1.2-2.PGDG.i386.rpm,  allude to?
> > PostGreSQL Development Group?  What does it mean?
>
> PostgreSQL Global Development Group.

There shouldn't be a dot in '2.PGDG'.

> To have five different RPMset's all claiming to be 'postgresql-7.1.2-1' is
> IMHO too much, particularly when you use rpmfind.net's resources to search
> for updated versions.

That's why there is a Packager field in the information header.  It is a
bit misdesigned, I agree, but making your set with a cryptic name won't
exactly underline its "official" status.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter


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