Re: RPM contents for 9.2 community release.

Hi Jeremy,

On Wed, September 12, 2012 6:23 pm, Jeremy Whiting wrote:

> I tried installing using the Direct Download RPMs for two systems I am
> using. The installation using the rpm files did not install in one case
> and the other did not install all files to the target directory I was
> expecting.
>
> 1) Upgrading postgresql on a 64 bit Fedora 16 desktop from 9.1.5 to 9.2
> using the rpms provided in the download section. I tried installing with
> yum the rpm files but getting an error message.
>
> $ ls
> postgresql92-9.2.0-1PGDG.f16.x86_64.rpm
> postgresql92-devel-9.2.0-1PGDG.f16.x86_64.rpm
> postgresql92-server-9.2.0-1PGDG.f16.x86_64.rpm
> postgresql92-contrib-9.2.0-1PGDG.f16.x86_64.rpm
> postgresql92-docs-9.2.0-1PGDG.f16.x86_64.rpm
> postgresql92-test-9.2.0-1PGDG.f16.x86_64.rpm
> postgresql92-debuginfo-9.2.0-1PGDG.f16.x86_64.rpm
> postgresql92-libs-9.2.0-1PGDG.f16.x86_64.rpm
> $ sudo yum install ./postgresql92-*
> Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, fastestmirror, langpacks, presto,
> refresh-packagekit
> Examining ./postgresql92-9.2.0-1PGDG.f16.x86_64.rpm:
> postgresql92-9.2.0-1PGDG.f16.x86_64
> ./postgresql92-9.2.0-1PGDG.f16.x86_64.rpm: does not update installed
> package.

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Community RPMs cannot be used to upgrade Fedora's own RPMs, since the
package names are different and we have a different layout, so this seems
ok to me.

> http://yum.postgresql.org/9.2/fedora/fedora-16-x86_64/repoview/
>
> Did I down the correct rpms ?

Yes.

> 2) The second install was to a 64 bit RHEL6 server. The RPM files
> installed using yum successfully. Downloaded the files from
>
> http://yum.postgresql.org/9.2/redhat/rhel-6-x86_64/repoview/
>
> However the files to provide postgresql tooling and server execution
> were not installed into
>
> /usr/bin
>
> I was trying to execute initdb. I did find it in an the
> 'postgresql92-9.2.0-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64.rpm' file but the installation
> target directory is
>
> /usr/pgsql-9.2/bin

Right. I have a blog post regarding this in here:
http://people.planetpostgresql.org/devrim/index.php?/archives/43-How-to-install-PostgreSQL-9.0-Beta-1-to-FedoraCentOSRHEL.html

(though this post needs some fixes, like init script name, etc)

I changed the layout, so that we can install multiple versions in parallel.

For initdb, you can use

service postgresql-9.2 initdb

> $ ls
> postgresql92-9.2.0-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
> postgresql92-docs-9.2.0-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
> postgresql92-contrib-9.2.0-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
> postgresql92-libs-9.2.0-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
> postgresql92-devel-9.2.0-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
> postgresql92-server-9.2.0-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
> $ ls /usr/pgsql-9.2/bin
> clusterdb droplang pg_archivecleanup pg_ctl pg_restore
> postgres vacuumlo
> createdb dropuser pg_basebackup pg_dump pg_standby
> postmaster
> createlang ecpg pgbench pg_dumpall pg_test_fsync
> psql
> createuser initdb pg_config pg_receivexlog pg_test_timing
> reindexdb
> dropdb oid2name pg_controldata pg_resetxlog pg_upgrade
> vacuumdb
> [postgres(at)benchserver2 tmp]$
>
> That means users on the system cannot immediately execute these files.
>
> Was there a mistake in the packaging paths of these files in the RPM ?

That is intentional. See here:
http://svn.pgrpms.org/browser/rpm/redhat/9.2/postgresql/EL-6/postgresql-9.2.spec#L576

The binaries I put under /usr/bin are the ones that can be used for
multiple versions, like psql, etc. Utilities like pg_ctl, initdb,
pg_controldata and pg_resetxlog are not among these, so they are kept
under /usr/pgsql-9.2/bin.

Regards,

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