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From Jonathan Wright
Subject Re: Add AlmaLinux as Specifically Supported Distro
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In response to Re: Add AlmaLinux as Specifically Supported Distro  ("Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>)
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On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 10:13 AM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> wrote:
+Devrim

On 1/4/22 10:42 AM, Jonathan Wright wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My name is Jonathan Wright and I'm in the Infrastructure Team Lead for
> AlmaLinux.  I/we use Postgres (naturally)

Glad to hear it!

>  and today I noticed that
> AlmaLinux is missing as a specifically listed supported distro at
> https://www.postgresql.org/download/
> <https://www.postgresql.org/download/> and
> https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/
> <https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/>
>
> I see that Rocky was added which is great, but I think it would also be
> appropriate to add AlmaLinux.  Alma and Rocky are on about equal footing
> in terms of adoption and both are major players in the RHEL rebuild
> arena at the moment.  It would be beneficial for users of both Postgres
> and Alma to have the support specifically listed.

I defer to Devrim on if the PostgreSQL YUM Repo supports AlmaLinux. I
did see some random Internet instructions that shows how to install
packages from the PostgreSQL YUM repo onto AlmaLinux systems.

For the OS distro, do you have a reference to which PostgreSQL packages
are available natively in Alma? I wasn't able to find it in my five
minutes of searching (though I did find the repo list)[1].

Same as upstream/RHEL.

[root@mirror01-ga ~]# dnf module list postgresql
Last metadata expiration check: 1:03:01 ago on Tue Jan  4 10:18:16 2022.
AlmaLinux 8 - AppStream
Name                                       Stream                                 Profiles                                           Summary
postgresql                                 9.6                                    client, server [d]                                 PostgreSQL server and client module
postgresql                                 10 [d]                                 client, server [d]                                 PostgreSQL server and client module
postgresql                                 12                                     client, server [d]                                 PostgreSQL server and client module
postgresql                                 13                                     client, server [d]                                 PostgreSQL server and client module

Exact packages change based on which module stream is enabled.

[root@mirror01-ga ~]# yum list postgresql*
Last metadata expiration check: 1:05:18 ago on Tue Jan  4 10:18:16 2022.
Available Packages
postgresql.x86_64                     10.17-2.module_el8.5.0+2551+8dca950a     appstream
postgresql-contrib.x86_64             10.17-2.module_el8.5.0+2551+8dca950a     appstream
postgresql-docs.x86_64                10.17-2.module_el8.5.0+2551+8dca950a     appstream
postgresql-jdbc.noarch                42.2.3-3.el8_2                           appstream
postgresql-jdbc-javadoc.noarch        42.2.3-3.el8_2                           appstream
postgresql-odbc.x86_64                10.03.0000-2.el8                         appstream
postgresql-odbc-tests.x86_64          10.03.0000-2.el8                         appstream
postgresql-plperl.x86_64              10.17-2.module_el8.5.0+2551+8dca950a     appstream
postgresql-plpython3.x86_64           10.17-2.module_el8.5.0+2551+8dca950a     appstream
postgresql-pltcl.x86_64               10.17-2.module_el8.5.0+2551+8dca950a     appstream
postgresql-server.x86_64              10.17-2.module_el8.5.0+2551+8dca950a     appstream
postgresql-server-devel.x86_64        10.17-2.module_el8.5.0+2551+8dca950a     appstream
postgresql-static.x86_64              10.17-2.module_el8.5.0+2551+8dca950a     appstream
postgresql-test.x86_64                10.17-2.module_el8.5.0+2551+8dca950a     appstream
postgresql-test-rpm-macros.x86_64     10.17-2.module_el8.5.0+2551+8dca950a     appstream
postgresql-upgrade.x86_64             10.17-2.module_el8.5.0+2551+8dca950a     appstream
postgresql-upgrade-devel.x86_64       10.17-2.module_el8.5.0+2551+8dca950a     appstream
 

Thanks,

Jonathan

[1] https://wiki.almalinux.org/repos/AlmaLinux.html


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