Re: EPEL and PowerTools to instructions

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 10:12 AM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
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> Hi
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> On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 8:45 PM Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> [Adding Dave]
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>> On Tue, 2020-11-03 at 11:05 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> > For a number of packages in the PostgreSQL yum repository, one needs
>> > to enable EPEL to make them work, and sometimes also PowerTools.
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>> Right, PostGIS needs PowerTools on RHEL 8.
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>> > This information is currently only available as archived news on
>> > the yum website, AFAICT.
>> >
>> > We should somehow work this into the download instructions I think.
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>> EDB recently did similar work here:
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>> https://repos.enterprisedb.com/
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>> Dave, any chance we can do something like this for the community repo
>> as well?
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> It's certainly possible, but it's not a trivial amount of work (and the edb-repos code couldn't really be reused in the community site, even if I got permission to do so). Also bear in mind that repos.enterprisedb.com was written to support products like PEM which have additional post-installation setup requirements, which is probably not the case for most things on yum.postgresql.org.
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> My suggestion would be to add the EPEL/PowerTools repos as optional steps in what we have now, with a note in the instructions explaining when they might be needed.

Not having looked at the EDB implementation in detail, but I agree
that having this as a documented optional step should be fine --
that's what I meant originally as well :)

Is there some (easy) way to determine exactly which packages need
which of them, that we could somehow even turn into a list on the site
(could be directly on yum.postgresql.org or on the main website
depending on the size).

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