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

On Tue, 2025-03-11 at 11:58 +0100, Bruno Friedmann wrote:
> 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.

But that is exactly the idea. Build against the PGDG packages, then
the binaries should work out of the box with the Redhat packages as well.

Are you trying to make things work or is this a matter of principle?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe