Re: 8.02 rpm error - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dave Cramer
Subject Re: 8.02 rpm error
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Msg-id 428DE996.7080603@fastcrypt.com
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In response to Re: 8.02 rpm error  (Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>)
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Re: 8.02 rpm error
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OK, so how do we fix this ?

Dave

Lamar Owen wrote:

>On Friday 20 May 2005 07:55, Dave Cramer wrote:
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>>Well, there's not much discussion here. Other than the fact that a few
>>things depend on libpq.so.3.
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>>Isn't the standard to keep libpq.so.(n-1) whenever you bump the number up ?
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>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.
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>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.
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