Re: Download strategy - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Dave Page
Subject Re: Download strategy
Date
Msg-id 937d27e10809190023s2bafb89aib97da69433febf16@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Download strategy  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
List pgsql-www
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Robert Treat
<xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> huh? i'm not talking about the one-click installer, I'm talking about
> pgsqlrpms vs rhel rpms.

Sorry - getting late; I misread what you wrote.

>> > and I'm not
>> > sure we should be promoting what is essentially a 3rd party system over
>> > the vendor supplied rpms.
>>
>> Vendor supplied RPMs are not released in the timely fashion that
>> Devrim's are, nor do they have such a wide range of PostgreSQL
>> packages as far as I'm aware.
>
> Is that a reason to ignore the vendor? Remember for people using something
> like RHEL, using pgdg rpms might be in violation of the support terms.

We're not ignoring the vendor - it's just that no one wrote the text
for that particular vendor yet. I did ask here a couple of times for
people to help populate the list with alternative distributions (and
to improve the text for the existing ones); you're welcome to provide
a patch :-p

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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com


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