Hi.

We tried the RPM under RH 6.2 and it would unpack, saying we needed this or
that or the other... A whole bunch of dependencies.

Anyway, once of us downloaded the source and compiled it and it worked...

I just want to be sure... there's no compelling reason to use RH 7.x
(basically any new distribution with newer libraries) right? Are there any
subtle problems we'd face if we continue using this setup?

Basically, the dependencies with the RPM install have made me suspicious...

Thanks in advance.

--Arsalan.


Mon, 21 May 2001 17:16:31 +0530
"Arsalan Zaidi" <azaidi@directi.com>
Using 7.1rc1 under RH 6.2
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On Monday 21 May 2001 07:46, Arsalan Zaidi wrote:
> We tried the RPM under RH 6.2 and it would unpack, saying we needed this or
> that or the other... A whole bunch of dependencies.

> I just want to be sure... there's no compelling reason to use RH 7.x
> (basically any new distribution with newer libraries) right? Are there any
> subtle problems we'd face if we continue using this setup?

RedHat 7.1 is a substantial upgrade for more than one reason.  Performance is 
better, and stability (at least for me) has been just as good.

> Basically, the dependencies with the RPM install have made me suspicious...

Well, first, 7.1rc1 is old.  The official 7.1 release is available, as is 
7.1.1 in /pub/binary/v7.1.1/RPMS/redhat-6.2 on the ftp.postgresql.org mirror 
near you.

Next, is there an existing PostgreSQL 6.5.3 install still on your 6.2 box?  
If so, you'll need to issue to upgrade with all existing RPM's listed on one 
rpm command line -- and you will need to add the package postgresql-libs to 
the list.  If that fails for some reason, please post (to the pgsql-ports 
list) the resulting dependency failures.

The dependencies are there for a reason.  But without details of what they 
were, I cannot further advise.
- --
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11
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Mon, 21 May 2001 12:11:15 -0400
Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
Re: Using 7.1rc1 under RH 6.2
Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:

> On Monday 21 May 2001 07:46, Arsalan Zaidi wrote:
> > We tried the RPM under RH 6.2 and it would unpack, saying we needed this or
> > that or the other... A whole bunch of dependencies.
> 
> > I just want to be sure... there's no compelling reason to use RH 7.x
> > (basically any new distribution with newer libraries) right? Are there any
> > subtle problems we'd face if we continue using this setup?
> 
> RedHat 7.1 is a substantial upgrade for more than one reason.  Performance is 
> better, and stability (at least for me) has been just as good.

The 2.4 kernels make sure that fdatasync() works properly, which could
improve performance in certain scenarious quite a bit.

-- 
Trond Eivind Glomsrï¿½d
Red Hat, Inc.

21 May 2001 13:38:46 -0400
teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=)
Re: Using 7.1rc1 under RH 6.2