Re: Upgrading on RH72

From: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
To: Patrick Nelson <pnelson(at)neatech(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL List (E-mail)" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Upgrading on RH72
Date: 2002-08-10 18:18:03
Message-ID: 200208101418.03471.lamar.owen@wgcr.org
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On Saturday 10 August 2002 01:22 pm, Patrick Nelson wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> ----------------->>>>
> BTW, the PGDG RPMs should take care of the upgrading process
> automatically, but there are always pitfalls so you may as well be
> careful.

Correction here. The PGDG RPMs _Try_ to help you, but it is far from
automatic. It is better to dump first and restore, if you can.

> ----------------->>>>
> Sounds good.

> 3. Tried rpm -U postgresql-7.2.1-2PGDG.i386.rpm but it fails with:
> error: failed dependencies:
> postgresql = 7.1.3 is needed by postgresql-server-7.1.3-2
> Am I not doing this correctly?

The PostgreSQL RPM's have a number of interdependencies. You need to rpm -U
all of the ones you want on a single line.
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11

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