AW: Wanted: PostgreSQL 12 on SLES 12

Hello Devrim, hello Christoph,

thank you for your answers, although this is bad news for us.

Kind regards
Helmut

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Von: Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
Gesendet: Sonntag, 17. November 2019 01:16
An: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>; Helmut Rickel <HRickel(at)eitco(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-pkg-yum(at)postgresql(dot)org; eitco-UVDMS-AS <eitco-UVDMS-AS(at)eitco(dot)de>
Betreff: Re: Wanted: PostgreSQL 12 on SLES 12

Hi,

On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 22:39 +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
> > Hello,
> > we want to use PostgreSLQ 12 in a productive environment on SLES 12 SPx.
> > Are there plans to provide the RPMs in (very) near future? This
> > would help us a lot, as the update process is much simpler when we
> > can use your RPMs right from the start.
>
> From https://twitter.com/DevrimGunduz/status/1189160307043774464 :
>
> > #SLES 12 Announcement | Due to various issues, mostly related to
> > broken external repositories that we have to depend on, the
> > #PostgreSQL repository will stop supporting newer #PostgreSQL
> > releases. I will keep maintaining up to v11 until foreseeable future.

Yeah. I'm not excited about SLES builds anymore. I'm really sick of depending some external repos for some external dependencies that suddenly disappear. I with SLES had something like EPEL.

Regards,
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Devrim Gündüz
Open Source Solution Architect, Red Hat Certified Engineer
Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR