Thread: Release 2 testing RPMS -- includes ALPHA patches.

Announcing release 2 of the lamar owen (lo) series of testing RPMS
available now at http://www.ramifordistat.net/postgres.

RPM naming has been changed in this release to hopefully avoid confusion
with RPMS built by Thomas on ftp.postgresql.org.

Alpha CPU users should download the src.rpm and build -- please let me
know of problems.  The patch that is applied is the one developed by
Uncle George and others, backported and packaged by Ryan Kirkpatrick --
in fact, it is the EXACT patch set he posted here recently. Other
architectures do not have the patches applied, thanks to the %ifarch RPM
directive.

Unless you are running RPMS of version 6.5 or later DO NOT USE 'rpm
-Uvh' TO UPGRADE -- IT WILL NOT WORK.  Check the rpm_upgrade page on
Ramifordistat for upgrade instructions.

THESE ARE STILL TESTING -- BETA -- RPMS.  Treat them as such -- please
give me feedback as to their suitability, bugs, etc.  Bugs that are
general PostgreSQL bugs, OTOH....

RPM packaging has changed versus 6.4.2 or previous -- note the
cross-reference list:

Old package             New package
-----------             -----------
postgresql              postgresql-server
postgresql-clients      postgresql, postgresql-jdbc, postgresql-odbc,
                        postgresql-tcl, postgresql-perl,
                        postgresql-python
postgresql-devel        postgresql-devel

To prevent rogue upgrading, these packages are built to conflict with
the 'postgresql-clients' package.

Changelog:
* Fri Aug 6 1999 Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
- Added alpha patches courtesy Ryan Kirkpatrick and Uncle George
- Renamed lamar owen series of RPMS with release of #lo
- Put Ramifordistat as vendor and URL for lamar owen RPM series,
-- until non-beta release coordinated with PGDG.

* Mon Jul 19 1999 Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
- Correct some file misappropriations:
-- /usr/lib/pgsql was in wrong package
-- createlang, destroylang, and vacuumdb now in main package
-- ipcclean now in server subpackage
-- The static libraries are now in the devel subpackage
-- /usr/lib/plpgsql.so and /usr/lib/pltcl.so now in server
- Cleaned up some historical artifacts for readability -- left
references
-  to these artifacts in the changelog

Enjoy!

Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio

Has anyone addressed the 64 bit lseek/tell? how about the filesize
limitation ( not ) of about 17 gigs? Any sayso if there will be a
problem when the 2gig/file barrier is broken ?
gat

Uncle George wrote:
>
> Has anyone addressed the 64 bit lseek/tell? how about the filesize
> limitation ( not ) of about 17 gigs? Any sayso if there will be a
> problem when the 2gig/file barrier is broken ?
> gat

Interesting set of questions -- Ryan may be able to answer them -- I
have no Alpha yet available to test with.  Like my message said -- these
are testing RPM's, for which I'm requesting feedback.

Everyone has their own area of expertise -- and Alpha is NOT mine...

Thanks for the work you did on that code -- and thanks to Ryan for the
backpatch to 6.5.1.

Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio