Re: BUG #18833: libpq.so doesn't contain declared symbol in rpm --provides

On mardi, 11 mars 2025 10.11:27 h heure normale d’Europe centrale Álvaro
Herrera wrote:
> On 2025-Mar-11, Bruno Friedmann wrote:
> > We (Bareos dev's team) build our software on what's distributed by the OS
> > editor. which means for RHEL9 libpq5-devel 13.20 (rhel)
> >
> > From time to time people want (for good reasons :-) ) use pgdg binaries,
> >
> > if you go that way libpq from pgdg is installed and as the rpm provides
> > all RH symbol you will get only this.
>
> Wouldn't this be solved if you built your software using the PGDG
> packages instead? That should be compatible with both the PGDG _and_
> the RH packages.

And why we would do that ? pgdg is an additional third repository.
We have to build binaries that will work out of the box from the software
vendor with restricted possibility. which is what we do.

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