Re: 8.02 rpm error - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: 8.02 rpm error
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Msg-id 428E3ED5.7070703@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: 8.02 rpm error  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@surnet.cl>)
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> Now, the problem with 8.0.2/8.0.3 is that we forgot to bump the soname
> before shipping 8.0, so we shipped a bogus libpq.so.3 which is really
> libpq.so.4, with a wrong soname.  How to fix?  Maybe we should provide a
> libpq3 package with the libraries coming from the REL_7_4_STABLE cvs
> branch.

I was just thinking about this today. Typically Redhat will have a
postgresql-libs-compat which would contain libpq.so.3. They haven't had 
to do this in the past with PostgreSQL but they do it with others such 
as glibc.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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