Re: Binaries for EOL version?

From: Evan Rempel <erempel(at)uvic(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Binaries for EOL version?
Date: 2023-10-19 20:21:23
Message-ID: c560e3a1-9a47-48f6-bb26-ce3bbd2b445e@uvic.ca
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No. The original request was for the RPMs from a yum repository. You
have to use a yum capable system.

On 2023-10-19 13:02, Ron wrote:
>
> Even Ubuntu and Windows?
>
> On 10/19/23 14:44, Evan Rempel wrote:
>> You can do that on any host and use the yum download only or if you
>> want it all use reposync.
>> Then you can copy the actual RPMS anywhere you want.
>>
>> Evan.
>>
>> On 2023-10-19 12:06, Ron wrote:
>>>
>>> Ah.  But I can't do that, since the server is behind many firewalls,
>>> and only has access to an internal RHEL mirror.
>>>
>>> The "current" binaries are all accessible via web browser (and
>>> curl), so it puzzles me why yum-archive isn't.
>>>
>>> I opened Redmine issue 7892 to make them available.
>>>
>>> On 10/19/23 13:38, Evan Rempel wrote:
>>>> The packages you need are definitely on the postgresql yum server.
>>>> The repository can not be browsed, but if you add the yum
>>>> repository definition file as documented at the bottom of the page
>>>> https://yum.postgresql.org/repopackages/#pgredhatoldrepos
>>>>
>>>> you will be able to do a "yum install amcheck_next96" easily.
>>>>
>>>> cat << EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-96.repo
>>>> [pgdg96]
>>>> name=PostgreSQL 9.6 RPMs for RHEL/CentOS 6
>>>> baseurl=https://yum-archive.postgresql.org/9.6/redhat/rhel-6-x86_64
>>>> enabled=1
>>>> gpgcheck=0
>>>> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-PGDG
>>>> EOF
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2023-10-19 10:54, Ron wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/19/23 12:30, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>> amcheck was not part of the Postgres source tree until v10.
>>>>>> It might exist in some form for 9.6, but you'd have to look
>>>>>> outside the standard distribution channels
>>>>>
>>>>> amcheck_next96 binary RPM were absolutely distributed by
>>>>> download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/9.6/redhat/rhel-6.
>>>>>
>>>>> I downloaded amcheck_next96-1.4.1 when I downloaded 9.6.22, but
>>>>> did not download amcheck_next96-1.4.5 with 9.6.24.
>>>>>
>>>>> If push comes to shove, I can probably install the 1.4.1 RPM along
>>>>> side 9.6.24.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia.
>>
>
> --
> Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia.

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