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From Steve Crawford
Subject Re: PGDG status and policy
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In response to Re: PGDG status and policy  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
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No, the *link* exists. The package doesn't (404 errors on, for example, Centos 7 x86_64 and several others).

Cheers,
Steve

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 3:22 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:
On 10/18/18 3:02 PM, Steve Crawford wrote:
> While looking to install version 11 I discovered that the PGDG Yum
> repository page at
> https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/ includes repository
> RPMs for RHEL7  (x86_64 and ppc64Ie), and RHEL6 (x86_64 and i386).
>
> However there are no RPMs for version 6 of any derivatives (CentOS,
> Scientific, Oracle) and the RPMs for all the RHEL derivatives are for
> ppc64Ie only.

My guess is the code supplying the dropdowns has not been refreshed.
Looks like the packages do exist:

https://yum.postgresql.org/repopackages.php

>
> To what extent are the missing repos simply due to packagers being busy
> and which are by policy? I looked for a packaging policy and failed to
> find one. Does such a thing exist?
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>


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