Re: postgis24_96 replaces postgis2_96, causing issues

On 05/10/17 01:58, Devrim Gündüz wrote:
> Hi Jimmy,
>
> On Mon, 2017-10-02 at 15:44 +0100, Jimmy Angelakos wrote:
>> Recently in rhel-7-x86_64, postgis24_96 replaced postgis2_96 by
>> obsoleting the latter meta-package, instead of adding a
>> postgis2_96-2.4.0 package.
>>
>> Because some of our Geo services had version locks on postgres and
>> postgis2_96, this has caused a number of problems in those services that
>> colleagues are mitigating right now. Is it possible to get a
>> postgis2_96-2.4.0 and to revert so that postgis24_96 does not replace
>> postgis2_96?
> Unfortunately, we can't revert that change, because we already started
> supporting more than 1 PostGIS version for many of PG releases :(
>
> Regards,

Thanks Devrim, I've advised them to select the most specific package
versions instead of generic ones from now on.

Cheers,
Jimmy

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