On Sunday 15 February 2004 02:54 pm, Mark Lubratt wrote: > I've finally decided to upgrade my postgresql installation. I'm > currently running 7.3.2 on RedHat 9.0.
> Here's my dilemma: Since RedHat is no longer supporting their "RedHat" > distributions, I can't really get a RPM for the upgrade. I'm concerned > about orphaning files if I do a straight compile from source (not > getting the configured directories to be the same as the original > installation). So the question is, do I uninstall the original RPM and > do a compile from source? Do I go to a SRPM? Do I uninstall and then > use a SRPM? For RHL9 you should be able to install the RHEL3 RPMs. If you want a set built custom, you can download the SRPM and rebuild it. It is the same thing as doing a from source recompile, but everything is put into the 'right' place. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
