Hi all,
I'm founding little messy the RPM condition for redhat:

Inside the RH9.0 coesist the 7.4.0-0.3 and 7.4.0-0.5 versions
looking on other RH directory version I found that actually

7.4.0-0.2
7.4.0-0.3
7.4.0-0.4
7.4.0-0.5

are existing.
Inside the SRPMS directory is present only the 7.4.0-0.2
version!

I'm able to put my hand on RH 8.0, RH 9.0, RHAS 2.1 and RHAS 3.0
and RH 7.3 systems, if you need some help let me know.


Regards
Gaetano Mendola


Sun, 28 Dec 2003 02:02:43 +0100
Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>
Little mess in RPM  RH ?
Hi,

> Inside the RH9.0 coesist the 7.4.0-0.3 and 7.4.0-0.5 versions
> looking on other RH directory version I found that actually
>
> 7.4.0-0.2
> 7.4.0-0.3
> 7.4.0-0.4
> 7.4.0-0.5
>
> are existing.
> Inside the SRPMS directory is present only the 7.4.0-0.2
> version!

This is because when I built the RPMs for RedHat there were little
differences between the different RedHat releases that caused the builds to
fail. I had to make minor adjustments for each platform, which is why there
are so many different release versions. The contents of the RPMs is
identical, only the build instructions differ. The SRPMs for all these
versions are at http://opensource.nederland.net/PostgreSQL/.

Lamar Owen (who creates the original SRPM) knows what has to be changed for
each platform, so I am confident that we won't have this many release again
for the next release.

> I'm able to put my hand on RH 8.0, RH 9.0, RHAS 2.1 and RHAS 3.0
> and RH 7.3 systems, if you need some help let me know.

Thanks for the offer. I can't do RHEL 3.0 yet, so if you could build the
RPMs for that platform that would be great. I still have a RH 6.2 machine in
case anybody still wants that.

Thanks,
Sander.


Sun, 28 Dec 2003 14:45:05 +0100
"Sander Steffann" <steffann@nederland.net>
Re: Little mess in RPM  RH ?
Sander Steffann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
>>Inside the RH9.0 coesist the 7.4.0-0.3 and 7.4.0-0.5 versions
>>looking on other RH directory version I found that actually
>>
>>7.4.0-0.2
>>7.4.0-0.3
>>7.4.0-0.4
>>7.4.0-0.5
>>
>>are existing.
>>Inside the SRPMS directory is present only the 7.4.0-0.2
>>version!
> 
> 
> This is because when I built the RPMs for RedHat there were little
> differences between the different RedHat releases that caused the builds to
> fail. I had to make minor adjustments for each platform, which is why there
> are so many different release versions. The contents of the RPMs is
> identical, only the build instructions differ. The SRPMs for all these
> versions are at http://opensource.nederland.net/PostgreSQL/.

Gasp! Another site popped up ! Why aren't these SRPMs in an official
Postgresql site ?


> Thanks for the offer. I can't do RHEL 3.0 yet, so if you could build the
> RPMs for that platform that would be great. I still have a RH 6.2 machine in
> case anybody still wants that.

I'll do it tomorrow, or is may be better do it for the 7.4.1 ?


Regards
Gaetano Mendola


Sun, 28 Dec 2003 15:03:59 +0100
Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>
Re: Little mess in RPM  RH ?
On Saturday 27 December 2003 08:02 pm, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> I'm founding little messy the RPM condition for redhat:

Yes, it is a litle messy.  My apologies.  There will hopefully not be that 
with the 7.4.1 set that I hope to release when I get back from vacation 
(Saturday or Monday, depending).

> I'm able to put my hand on RH 8.0, RH 9.0, RHAS 2.1 and RHAS 3.0
> and RH 7.3 systems, if you need some help let me know.

Sander Steffann has been building for most of those, except RHEL AS 3.  I have 
an installed WBEL (White Box EL, a 'generic' linux distribution built from 
the SRPMS that Red Hat has in its enterprise directory).  That box isn't a 
devel box, but I am building up (while I'm on vacation) a devel box.  So I'll 
be building RPMs on that box with WBEL which should install on RHEL3. 
-- 
Lamar Owen
Director of Information Technology
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
1 PARI Drive
Rosman, NC  28772
(828)862-5554
www.pari.edu


Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:35:44 -0500
Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
Re: Little mess in RPM  RH ?
On Sunday 28 December 2003 09:03 am, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> Sander Steffann wrote:
> > This is because when I built the RPMs for RedHat there were little
> > differences between the different RedHat releases that caused the builds
> > to fail. I had to make minor adjustments for each platform, which is why
> > there are so many different release versions. The contents of the RPMs is
> > identical, only the build instructions differ. The SRPMs for all these
> > versions are at http://opensource.nederland.net/PostgreSQL/.

> Gasp! Another site popped up ! Why aren't these SRPMs in an official
> Postgresql site ?

They are.  See 
ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/binary/v7.4/redhat/redhat-6.2/postgresql-7.4-0.4PGDG.src.rpm 
as an example.

Sander hosts his own site; and that's OK.  I did the same back when I first 
got started do this from my own server.  Then Marc allowed me to directly 
upload.

> I'll do it tomorrow, or is may be better do it for the 7.4.1 ?

If you'll hold off a few days both 7.4.1 and 7.3.5 RPMs are due to be 
released.  At that point building on various distributions and setting up 
torrents will be done.
-- 
Lamar Owen
Director of Information Technology
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
1 PARI Drive
Rosman, NC  28772
(828)862-5554
www.pari.edu


Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:42:01 -0500
Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
Re: Little mess in RPM  RH ?