On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:06 pm, Erwin Zierler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd be interested too if SuSE is planning anything in this direction.
> An upgrade to Postgres 7.3 would definietly be benefitical for
> probably most users.
> Btw, are there plans to offer any Apache 2.* version anytime soon?
> Please forgive me if I missed something and it's available already.
>
> I am facing a situation where I probably soon have to start building
> all my servers/progams myself again, just like in the 'good old days'
> when the name 'distibution' was unknown in the Linux world ;-)
>
> Anyhow, I dont really like the idea of having to run several dozen
> ./configure with several hundreds of --enable's for each and every
> server I want. Only to find out I have to compile all mod_* too and
> then for mod_php get several libraries and includes to enable the
> features I want. Getting all this working on differrent SuSE 7.* (and
> higher) systmes has (in my opinion) become more and more difficult over
> the past few years. Not that I am unable to get it working, it just
> consumes too much time. If I had so much time I'd probably go for
> LFS or some other 'self-built' Linux - not only because of the potential
> speed improvement, rather because I would then finally know once
> again where on my system what is done ;-)
>
> Anyone here having similar thoughts?

Well, once again SuSE provides the goods :-)

nix:~ # apt-get install postgresql
Processing File Dependencies... Done
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  postgresql-contrib postgresql-devel postgresql-server postgresql-test
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  postgresql-plperl
5 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove(replace) and 11 not
upgraded.
Need to get 6520kB of archives. After unpacking 933kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.1-i386/suse-people postgresql 7.3-0 [1250kB]
Get:2 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.1-i386/suse-people postgresql-contrib 7.3-0
[1079kB]
Get:3 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.1-i386/suse-people postgresql-devel 7.3-0
[501kB]
Get:4 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.1-i386/suse-people postgresql-server 7.3-0
[2780kB]
Get:5 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.1-i386/suse-people postgresql-test 7.3-0
[910kB]
Fetched 6520kB in 1m41s (64.4kB/s)
Executing RPM (-e)...
Executing RPM (-U)...
postgresql ##################################################
postgresql-server ##################################################
Updating etc/sysconfig/postgresql...
postgresql-test ##################################################
postgresql-devel ##################################################
postgresql-contrib ##################################################

So far so good. About to do some testing now. (I am wondering why there is no
longer a postgresql-plperl package??)
For those of you who are not using apt-get (probably most of you as it doesn't
come with SuSE and isn't supported and isn't recommended unless you know
exactly what you are doing :-) you should be able to find the rpms in one of
the subdirs of the people directory on ftp.suse.com (I don't know which one
because the rpm does not list the packager)

I will let you all know how my testing goes.

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