Re: [ADMIN] Re: upgrading RPM query

2001-08-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday 20 August 2001 18:08, Chad R. Larson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 02:37:55PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > > And, YES, library versions under Linux distributions are as bad if > > not worse than Windows' 'DLL Hell' is. Well, at least mostly. > > RPM-based Linux distributions at least _

Re: [ADMIN] Re: upgrading RPM query

2001-08-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday 20 August 2001 09:13, John Turner wrote: > > As to rebuilding from SRPMS, if you have enough to compile from the > > tarball you simply: > > rpm --rebuild postgresql-7.1.2-4PGDG.src.rpm > > and pick up your binary RPMs from /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386. > > > > Much simpler than a hand comp

[ADMIN] Re: upgrading RPM query

2001-08-20 Thread John Turner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lamar Owen) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On Wednesday 08 August 2001 12:15, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > I downloaded the postgresql-7.1.2 rpms and tried to install them - I had 20 > > lines of failed dependancies. I downloaded the RPMS for those, and ended > >

Re: [ADMIN] Re: upgrading RPM query

2001-08-14 Thread Gary Stainburn
Thanks for that Alan, However, as the box I was putting it onto is a new one, I am making an effort to stick to RPM's this time, as much as an academic exerciser as anything else. I actually found it quite easy to download the SRPM and build all the binary RPMs from it. It also means that if

Re: [ADMIN] Re: upgrading RPM query

2001-08-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday 13 August 2001 22:28, Alan Gutierrez wrote: > Gary Stainburn wrote: > > At the risk of starting to stray OT for this list, how do you go about > > installing SRPMS - I've never done anything like that before. > An easier way to do this would be to download the postgresql tarball. Nop

[ADMIN] Re: upgrading RPM query

2001-08-14 Thread Alan Gutierrez
Gary Stainburn wrote: > At the risk of starting to stray OT for this list, how do you go about > installing SRPMS - I've never done anything like that before. An easier way to do this would be to download the postgresql tarball. Download the following: http://www.postgresql.org/ftpsite/v7.1.2