Re: sudo inconsistencies in download pages

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: sudo inconsistencies in download pages
Date: 2020-11-02 08:53:21
Message-ID: CA+OCxoxKxibdyy1wc7jP1=DSWK=EVCMWzyaKM+-zGf1JHpJfJQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 5:40 PM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
wrote:

> On 10/30/20 1:03 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> >> The new download pages that generate "copy/paste scripts" include sudo
> >> in the instructions for debian and ubuntu, but not for redhat and
> >> centos. That seems inconsistent :) We should probably be consistent
> >> there, or is there a particular reason not to be?
> >
> > Can't see a reason not to include it on the Red Hat side.
>
> +1. Doing a scan of other projects, it seems to be acceptable to include
> "sudo" as part of providing installation instructions.
>

Does sudo work out of the box on CentOS/RHEL 6? Otherwise I don't see a
problem with it.

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