Re: postgres on redhat 7.0

Sorry, only have an As/400 here, and I doubt think they'll let me play with
it that much... :)

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lamar Owen" <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
To: "Adam Lang" <aalang(at)rutgersinsurance(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] postgres on redhat 7.0

> Adam Lang wrote:
> > Which leads me to a question. Why do so many people ask the list where
the
> > most current RPMS for Redhat are located? Not trying to start trouble,
but
> > doesn't it seem obvious to check the Redhat site? Just wierd that so
many
> > people ask where to find them...
>
> Well, we maintain RPM's ourselves (or should I say, I maintain RPM's
> myself) -- but due to the lack of a RedHat 7 machine for me to build on
> (at this time) the best place to get RedHat 7 RPM's is with RedHat 7.
>
> I just announced the newest set -- there will be more announcements
> later this week or early next week as I build binaries on other
> architectures (I'm even working on building Hercules so I can
> build/rebuild for S/390 on my Intel box -- Hercules is an ESA/390
> emulator -- slow as Christmas, but will run Linux/390 well enough to
> build/rebuild RPM's. My goal is posting working S/390 binaries on
> ftp.postgresql.org -- the coolness factor alone is worth the work) and
> other distributions (such as TurboLinux, Caldera eServer, and SuSE --
> although SuSE has a 7.0.2 RPMset of their own that is substantially
> different from ours, even though it is based on ours).
>
> Unless someone want to offer me a shell and build privileges on a
> Linux/390 VM on their real S/390 :-).
>
> In fact, I'm requesting that people running something other than RedHat
> 6.2 on Intel try to --rebuild the src.rpm I just posted so that I can
> get binaries for multiple architectures. If you need to patch the spec
> file or whatever else to get it to run, send the patches my way so we
> can make it just a simple --rebuild for most folks.
> --
> Lamar Owen
> WGCR Internet Radio
> 1 Peter 4:11