Re: pitrtools package wrong dependency (binary packages)

From: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
To: DANIEL CRISTIAN CRUZ <daniel(dot)cruz(at)sc(dot)senai(dot)br>
Cc: PostgreSQL Admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pitrtools package wrong dependency (binary packages)
Date: 2010-06-03 05:23:28
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On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 16:03 -0300, DANIEL CRISTIAN CRUZ wrote:
> I was trying to setup a test environment with PostgreSQL 8.2 +
> Heartbeat +
> pitrtools, but the package in
> http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/8.2/redhat/rhel-5Server-x86_64/pitrtools-1.2-3.rhel5.noarch.rpm
> seems to have a wrong dependency (postgresql-server >= 8.3).
>
> Is it correct?

Actually that package either

1) should not exist in 8.2 repository. It depends on pg_standby
internally, and pg_standby is not available in RPMs.

2) should not depend on -contrib package for 8.2, and let the user
install pg_standby manually.

I think the good way is (2).

Regards,
--
Devrim GÜNDÜZ
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