Re: Version 6 binaries for RHEL 7

Tom - Thanks for the direction. Searched but missed the announcement on eol. Will try what you suggest. Would be great if under the down load page the dialog only allowed selection of platform where the rpm’s are available. Currently when you select version 16 both RHEL 6 and 7 can be selected under platform.

Thanks
David

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> On Feb 17, 2024, at 11:25, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> writes:
>>> On 2/17/24 09:49, Kerr Livingstone wrote:
>>> Postgres version 6.2 …
>
>> Yikes.
>
> Indeed. I strongly suspect that the OP actually means 16.2.
>
>> I believe you are looking at downloading the source:
>
> Yeah, it's clear from
>
> https://yum.postgresql.org/packages/
>
> that Devrim has stopped building new PG branches for RHEL7,
> and I also see the announcement of that:
>
> https://yum.postgresql.org/news/rhel7-postgresql-rpms-end-of-life/
>
> However, all is not lost. My answer to this would be to construct an
> SRPM for 16.2 on RHEL7 yourself. Downloading Devrim's SRPMs for 15.x
> on RHEL7 and 16.2 on RHEL8 and diff'ing the .spec files would be a
> pretty good guide to how to adapt the 16.2/RHEL8 SRPM for RHEL7.
> If you've never worked with deconstructing SRPMs or building binary
> packages from one, now is a good time to learn. Being able to do this
> sort of thing is one of the fundamental advantages that open-source
> distros have over closed-source ones, so you shouldn't ignore it.
>
> regards, tom lane