Re: python-dateutil in pgdg96 rhel7 repo

Hi Pim,

On Sat, 2017-02-18 at 14:07 +0100, Pim Rupert wrote:

> I noticed that the PostgreSQL 9.6 yum repository for RHEL/CentOS 7 overwrites
> the 'python-dateutil' package from the RHEL/CentOS 7 base repositories with a
> newer version. 

Right, because the python-dateutil package provided in RHEL 7 is not sufficient
for pgadmin4. That is why I had to add ~30 dependencies to PGDG yum repo, and
-dateutil is one of them.

> It would be great if the PostgreSQL yum repository followed best practices
> from the Safe Repo initiative. Ideally the PostgreSQL yum repository does not
> obsolete stock packages. 

Actually we *try* to do that, but there are some exceptions -- like this case.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards,
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