Re: Adding Oracle Linux to the Linux Download pages

> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> On 12/16/2013 03:20 PM, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
>> > I'd like to ask if it would be possible to add Oracle Linux to the list
>> of
>> > distributions on the PostgreSQL download pages. In particular, I'd like
>> to
>> > suggest the following changes:
>>
>> I don't see any reason why we wouldn't list OL alongside the other Red
>> Hat variants, if the RPMs work on it.
>
>
> We should only add those if we are willing to support Oracle Linux.
> Otherwise we could just make a footnote somewhere saying that they should
> work there too, but are not supported. At least my understanding is that we
> do fully support RHEL+CentOS+SL+Fedora. If we can equally well support
> Oracle it should be added to that list, if not it should be added some
> other way.

+1.

> But if the RPMs do work, I agree it's probably a good idea to at
> least mention it.

Good point. However somebody needs to be responsible for that.

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