On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 01:53:27PM -0500, Matt Warren wrote: > > > >https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2012-November/msg00146.html > > > >Basically: if you don't like the Requires list in the > >spacewalk-postgresql package, just don't use it and install all > >dependencies manually. > > I'd read that message but found "install all dependencies manually" left > me with questions.
And rightly so. ;-) You'd be on your own. If we add new dependency in the future, you'll need to catch that during upgrade. > Primarily, What is the best "root" package of a dependency tree to get a > non-db-specific install? spacewalk-base? That would be spacewalk-common. > Are there aspects (scripts, commands) of system setup using Postgres that > I'd then be missing? The package spacewalk-postgresql contains only one file, defining the db-backend value for spacewalk-setup. If you pass that value in manually, you should be good to go. Other than this one file the package is just a list of package dependencies. Another thing that you possibly could do is to create your own rpm postgresql84-contrib with some high epoch which would just require that postgresql-contrib-8.4 from the PostgreSQL repository -- that way the dependency chain would be closed and you (possibly) could continue to use spacewalk-postgresql. -- Jan Pazdziora Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list