On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:29:15PM +0100, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > I just make postgresql 8.1 rpm for mandriva and I was making basic test. I > made in pgfoundry the module pgrpm (rpm function in postgres).
<snip> > Well the problem here is the module was build with postgresql 8.0. I will > rebuild the module ASAP, this is not a problem. > > The problem is rpm has no way to detect this kind of issue: <snip> > Does anyone allready think to add marker into module, and maybe into postgres > and giving a way to rpm or other packaging tools to detect broken linkage ? > > To fix the issue, I will add a provide into postgresql-server package, > something like postgresql-ABI = 8.1, add equivalent requires into modules. There is some discussion about this on -hackers. It'll probably happen at some stage but the actual method is not clear yet. In the meantime, modules can only work with a single release. I'm actually not sure about the policy for minor releases. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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