RPMs for RedHat ES3.0

Devrim, I had some problems installing on RedHat ES3.0 with the RPMs. This
issue turned out to be that I needed the compat libs to provide the old libs
before I could install the new libs.

I found a link to
http://developer.PostgreSQL.org/~devrim/compat-postgresql-libs-3-3PGDG.i686.rpm
in an archived post from -hackers. It wasn't all that obvious what was
required though, so is it possible that this RPM could actually be put with
the downloads for the main RPMs? I'm not sure anyone's installation would
succeed without that RPM on RedHat ES3.0. Please let me know if I'm missing
something.

As an aside: is it possible to actually to just include the contents of
compat-libs in postgresql-libs, since they actually seem to be required? It'd
save me some hassles for future installations. Probably other folks too.

Regards, Philip.

Boring details:
1) removed all previous traces of postgresql:
[root(at)dev2 root]# rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep postgres` \
perl-DBD-Pg-1.21-2 mod_auth_pgsql-2.0.1-4.ent php-pgsql-4.3.2-19.ent

2) Grabbed 8.0.3 binaries from:
http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.0.3/linux/rpms/redhat/rhel-es-3.0/

3) Try to install:
[root(at)dev2 8.x]# rpm -i postgresql-8.0.3-1PGDG.i686.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libpq.so.4 is needed by postgresql-8.0.3-1PGDG
[root(at)dev2 8.x]# rpm -i postgresql-libs-8.0.3-1PGDG.i686.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libecpg.so.4 is needed by postgresql-libs-8.0.3-1PGDG
libpgtypes.so.1 is needed by postgresql-libs-8.0.3-1PGDG
libpq.so.3 is needed by postgresql-libs-8.0.3-1PGDG
Suggested resolutions:
rh-postgresql-libs-7.3.8-2.i386.rpm

4) Install
http://developer.postgresql.org/~devrim/compat-postgresql-libs-3-3PGDG.i686.rpm ,
repeat step 3 and suddenly life gets a whole lot better :-)

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