Re: RHEL5 postgresql94-contrib is broken, unsatisfied dependency on uuid-ossp

Hi,

On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 12:08 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:

> > Right. Let's fix it in the next set of releases.
>
> Sounds good - A Requires: plus some references to EPEL being recommended
> for RHEL/CentOS would do the job.

Ok.

> We don't need it for 9.4 though; the conditional uuid support may be
> removed entirely and replaced with:
>
>
> # Over time the package containing this has varied. If in doubt use:
> # yum whatprovides /usr/lib64/libuuid.so
> # to find out.
> %if 0%{?rhel} == 5
> BuildRequires: e2fsprogs-devel
> %else
> BuildRequires: libuuid-devel
> %endif
>
> and instead of --with-ossp-uuid to configure, use:
>
> --with-uuid=e2fs
>
>
> then there's no need for core postgresql94 packages to depend on EPEL at
> all anymore.

Do you have time to submit a patch to current spec files? Otherwise, I
can give a shot next week.

Regards,
--
Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
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