Re: Adding Oracle Linux to the Linux Download pages

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Lenz Grimmer <lenz(at)grimmer(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi Magnus,
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
> wrote:
>
> > We should only add those if we are willing to support Oracle Linux.
> > Otherwise we could just make a footnote somewhere saying that they should
> > work there too, but are not supported. At least my understanding is that
> we
> > do fully support RHEL+CentOS+SL+Fedora.
>
> Can you please elaborate on what "supported" means in this context?
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/ primarily lists what
> versions of PostgreSQL are actually shipped as part of the
> distribution already, they are usually "supported" by the distribution
> itself. So adding Oracle Linux to the list of RHEL derivatives that
> include PostgreSQL by default per my suggestion here would not have
> any additional support implications for the PostgreSQL project per se.
>

I was referring to the section about the PostgreSQL YUM repository.
Supported in this case means that the packagers creating that repository
(primarily Devrim) will accept and be able to deal with bug reports on this
platform.

Granted, we could certainly list it in the section under "included in the
distribution", but then we need to make it clear that while it's included
there, it's not supported in our repository. Right now we don't make that
distinction.

> If we can equally well support Oracle it should be added to that list, if
> not it should be added some other
> > way. But if the RPMs do work, I agree it's probably a good idea to at
> least mention it.
>
> Thanks. Similar to CentOS or Scientific Linux, Oracle Linux is built
> from the very same RHEL source packages, so it's fully binary
> compatible. In fact, it would be considered a bug if there is any kind
> of incompatibility.

Right. The issue from the perspective of the community yum repository is
more in the availability of platforms to work on to verify that things
actually work, and to reproduce potential issues etc.

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