On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> I am pretty sure they will never upgrade RHEL5 to the 8.2 series because
> they do not do it to get new features.
That's correct.
> I do know that if I try to use .rpms from other sources, I can get in a
> lot of trouble with incompatible libraries. And I cannot upgrade the
> libraries without damaging other programs.
You're also right that this is tricky. I've written a guide that goes
over the main issues involved at
http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/pgrpm.htm if you ever
wanted to explore this as an option.
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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD