Re: Packaging - Packages names consistency (RPM)

Hi,

RPM packager speaking: I agree that this is very annoying, and this is also in my todo list. Let me try to prioritize it.

Regards, Devrim

On 15 October 2020 17:23:33 GMT+03:00, Bruno Lavoie <bl(at)brunol(dot)com> wrote:
>Hi Hackers,
>
>First, thanks for working on such a great database! :)
>
>We're currently trying to automate our PostgreSQL setup by using
>Ansible.
>We have an Ansible role for which we can specify supplemental
>extensions
>for which a deployment must install.
>
>To keep it simple across deployed version we simply ask to specify
>extension list, as simple as:
>
> - pgaudit
> - postgis
> - wal2json
> - ... and so on ...
>
>
>In the installation steps, we simply install all of these packages and
>add
>the version to the name. But it appears that some package names are
>either:
>
> - <package>_<version>
> - <package><version>
>
>So, it is impossible to simply ask the package/extension name and
>programmatically add the version using a common pattern. I think that
>if we
>use the underscore to specify the version, it should be the same across
>all
>versions.
>
>Maybe I'm missing something
>Thanks
>Bruno Lavoie

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