When you say "forces upgrades" what do you mean?
I might do things differently- I download the tarball, compile, dump and restore
my system. I've never have Postgres **not** compile on my Slackware boxes but
I've had **tons** of issues with RPM disto's (I've consulted on RedHat &
Mandrake personally) with even smaller packages things so I don't use it much.
Seems to me you should **always** be able to compile software.
-$0.02
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Quoting Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2003 14:23, Guy Fraser wrote:
> > What a mess...
> > RH has fouled up a lot of stuff lately...
> > I'm not even going to go there...
>
> It's as much a problem with other RPM-based distributions of Linux as it is
> with Red Hat. And I am of the strong opinion that it is just as much the
> fault of the way PostgreSQL forces upgrades as it is a fault with any
> particular distributor.
>
> Even a straight portupgrade on FreeBSD is broken. It's a mess because of the
>
> way PostgreSQL needs to be upgraded.
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