Re: GreatBridge RPMs (was: Re: [HACKERS] question)

2001-01-23 Thread Lamar Owen
"Roderick A. Anderson" wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > RPM. That should work, unless the package spec makes some unportable > > assumptions, such as different file system layouts. But that is often > > only an annoyance, not a real problem. > I'm glad to see GreatBridg

Re: GreatBridge RPMs (was: Re: [HACKERS] question)

2001-01-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > In general, RPMs only work on systems that are the same as the one they > were built on, for various degrees of "same". If you're not picking up > the RPMs from your distributor or you're sure that the builder used the > same version as you have, it

Re: GreatBridge RPMs (was: Re: [HACKERS] question)

2001-01-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Poul Laust Christiansen writes: > I've just moved from Redhat to Mandrake. > > But do I have to use the Mandrake RPM? Doesn't the standard RPM work on > mandrake? In general, RPMs only work on systems that are the same as the one they were built on, for various degrees of "same". If you're not

Re: GreatBridge RPMs (was: Re: [HACKERS] question)

2001-01-23 Thread Poul Laust Christiansen
I've just moved from Redhat to Mandrake. But do I have to use the Mandrake RPM? Doesn't the standard RPM work on mandrake? What is the difference between these two RPM's? I'd hate to wait for the Mandrake specific RPM for every release. Poul L. Christiansen On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Lamar Owen wr

GreatBridge RPMs (was: Re: [HACKERS] question)

2001-01-23 Thread Lamar Owen
Ned Lilly wrote: > > Great Bridge makes PostgreSQL 7.0.3 RPMs for 8 different Linux distros > at http://www.greatbridge.com/download ... For the record (with permission of Great Bridge a few months back), I want to thank Great Bridge for helping with the development of the current Official RPMs,