Thread: 8.4 -> 9.0 upgrade difficulties
I am attempting to upgrade from 8.4 to 9.0 via parallel install of 9.0 along with 8.4. It isn't going well. Fortunately it's a dev/test machine I'm using as a test and practice space. The place I'm stuck is that "postgresql-server conflicts with postgresql90 (yum output at bottom). History: I've mostly been following: http://people.planetpostgresql.org/devrim/index.php?/archives/48-What-is-new-in-PostgreSQL-9.0-RPMs.html and http://people.planetpostgresql.org/devrim/index.php?/archives/50-Upgrading-from-8.4-to-9.0-on-Fedora-Red-Hat-CentOS-using-RPMs.html The machine was originally built with CentOS 5.3. I installed the PGDG 8.4 RPMs from yum.pgrpms.org. The machine has been in-service for a couple years during which it has been updated and is now up to CentOS 5.6. Upon reading that the RPMS are now being built so that multiple versions can peacefully coexist, I attempted to install pgdg-centos-9.0-2.noarch.rpm but got an error saying that there was a conflict with /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-PGDG from 8.4. Reading that there were still issues that required forcing, I forced it. Recalling the key-conflict issue from a year or so ago, I erased both the pgdg-centos-8 and 9 rpms (just the basic ones that update the repo, not the server/client/contribs), reinstalled the latest pgdg-centos-8..., ran "yum clean" then "yum upgrade" then confirmed that 8.4 was up to 8.4.8 and working. I then installed the pgdg-centos-9... repo rpm without trouble. No more key conflict messages and "yum list" shows both the 8.4 and 9.0 packages. But 9.0 still refuses to install: Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package postgresql90-contrib.i386 0:9.0.4-1PGDG.rhel5 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: postgresql90 = 9.0.4 for package: postgresql90-contrib --> Processing Dependency: libossp-uuid.so.15 for package: postgresql90-contrib ---> Package postgresql90-server.i386 0:9.0.4-1PGDG.rhel5 set to be updated --> Running transaction check ---> Package postgresql90.i386 0:9.0.4-1PGDG.rhel5 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: postgresql90-libs = 9.0.4-1PGDG.rhel5 for package: postgresql90 ---> Package uuid.i386 0:1.5.1-4.rhel5 set to be updated --> Running transaction check ---> Package postgresql90-libs.i386 0:9.0.4-1PGDG.rhel5 set to be updated --> Processing Conflict: postgresql-server conflicts postgresql < 7.4 --> Finished Dependency Resolution postgresql-server-8.4.8-1PGDG.rhel5.i386 from installed has depsolving problems --> postgresql-server conflicts with postgresql90 Error: postgresql-server conflicts with postgresql90 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: package-cleanup --problems package-cleanup --dupes rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest Thoughts/suggestions? Cheers, Steve
Hi, On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 17:09 -0700, Steve Crawford wrote: <snip> > Upon reading that the RPMS are now being built so that multiple > versions can peacefully coexist. That feature is available for: * RHEL/SL/CentOS 4,5 -> PostgreSQL 9.0+ * RHEL/SL/CentOS 6 -> PostgreSQL 8.4+ So, since you are using CentOS 5, you may not be able to install 8.4 and 9.0 in parallel. I don't have any intention to break current 8.4 RPMs in CentOS 5, and let them to be installed in parallel, because it is the most used package set among all RPMs. Regards, -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer Community: devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/devrimgunduz >
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On 09/08/2011 12:48 AM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: > > So, since you are using CentOS 5, you may not be able to install 8.4 and > 9.0 in parallel. > > ... Just did a fully clean purge of 8.4 and install of 9.0. Not sure where to report packaging errors but upon running /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.0 it advised to run "service postgresql initdb". This script needs to be updated to advise users to run "service postgresql-9.0 initdb". Cheers, Steve