Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 14:45 +0000, John Gardner wrote: >> basically we're using vresion 8.2.3 of >> PostgreSQL from RPM and i'd like to know if it is possible to have an >> RPM version of Slony to work with it or do we need to start again and >> build them both from scratch? > > Once upon a time, when we were maintaining a few PostgreSQL releases > like 7.3, 7.4 and 8.0, it was not that hard to maintain Slony-I RPM > packages... > > However, as we began to support many PostgreSQL releases and Linux > distros, it became hard to support SLony-I RPMs. > > I'm trying to push Slony-I to Fedora (Extras). Once it is pushed, we > will have a Slony-I RPM in Fedora and EPEL. However, when someones wants > to use a different PostgreSQL version (= PGDG RPMs) that is shipped in > Fedora, that Slony-I RPM won't work. > > In order to solve that problem, you can build your RPM very easily. Just > extract the tarball and run these: > > ./configure > make rpm > > That is enough, if you have the development packages. This command will > build Slony-I RPM that matches your PostgreSQL version... > > Cheers, > >
Thanks Devrim I don't have any problem with rolling my own RPMs! (I've never done it before, put it doesn't sound too bad!) John _______________________________________________ Slony1-general mailing list [email protected] http://gborg.postgresql.org/mailman/listinfo/slony1-general
