On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 8:45 PM Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org> wrote:
Hi,
[Adding Dave]
On Tue, 2020-11-03 at 11:05 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > For a number of packages in the PostgreSQL yum repository, one needs > to enable EPEL to make them work, and sometimes also PowerTools.
Right, PostGIS needs PowerTools on RHEL 8.
> This information is currently only available as archived news on > the yum website, AFAICT. > > We should somehow work this into the download instructions I think.
Dave, any chance we can do something like this for the community repo as well?
It's certainly possible, but it's not a trivial amount of work (and the edb-repos code couldn't really be reused in the community site, even if I got permission to do so). Also bear in mind that repos.enterprisedb.com was written to support products like PEM which have additional post-installation setup requirements, which is probably not the case for most things on yum.postgresql.org.
My suggestion would be to add the EPEL/PowerTools repos as optional steps in what we have now, with a note in the instructions explaining when they might be needed.
