Re: 8.02 rpm error - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Lamar Owen
Subject Re: 8.02 rpm error
Date
Msg-id 200505200926.36803.lowen@pari.edu
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In response to Re: 8.02 rpm error  (Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>)
Responses Re: 8.02 rpm error  (Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>)
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On Friday 20 May 2005 07:55, Dave Cramer wrote:
> Well, there's not much discussion here. Other than the fact that a few
> things depend on libpq.so.3.

> Isn't the standard to keep libpq.so.(n-1) whenever you bump the number up ?

Only because libpq versioning has always been an afterthought in the upstream 
release process.  The RPMset has worked around this in the past by providing 
fake previous versions; but it is just an ugly workaround of broken upstream 
behavior.  This is not a new issue, unfortunately.

That is, symlinks were provided to the new version of the library that 
masqueraded as previous versions, but weren't really previous versions.  That 
can cause it's own broken behavior.
-- 
Lamar Owen
Director of Information Technology
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
1 PARI Drive
Rosman, NC  28772
(828)862-5554
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