Re: [GENERAL] Upgrading side by side in Gentoo

2008-11-14 Thread Sam Mason
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:31:51AM -0800, Erik Jones wrote: > P.S. To whomever said that Gentoo for for single users running > cutting edge software, poppycock. I'm a fellow ex-Gentoo user; moved to Debian and things are much easier. > Any self-respecting company running > Gentoo should be m

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrading side by side in Gentoo

2008-11-13 Thread Guy Rouillier
Erik Jones wrote: P.S. To whomever said that Gentoo for for single users running cutting edge software, poppycock. That was me. Andrus said in a former post on this thread: >> I have ... no experiences on Linux. I stand by my assertion that his company should not be running Gentoo in a pr

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrading side by side in Gentoo

2008-11-13 Thread Erik Jones
Ok, I work at a hosting company that runs Gentoo as it's main host operating system so here's the skivvy on the current status of PostgreSQL under portage. Up until just a few months ago the needed packages were called libpq and postgresql (go figure). These were *not* slotted and so did n

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrading side by side in Gentoo

2008-11-13 Thread Andrus
Where to get ready binaries which can be copied and ran in Gentoo ? Is there any how-to pages or tips about compiling PostgreSql from source in this Gentoo ? This would do more harm than good so *don't*. How can compiling PostgreSql 8.3.x from source on Gentoo do more harm than good ? I expec

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrading side by side in Gentoo

2008-11-13 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:33:26 -0500, Greg Smith wrote: > You need to get one of the experimental builds that include slotted > support. Take a look at > http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/postgresql/wiki/ExperimentalFAQ and the > page linked to by the blog article you mentioned at > http://dev-zero.c

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrading side by side in Gentoo

2008-11-13 Thread Adriana Alfonzo
no more mesages please.. Holger Hoffstaette escribió: On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:41:35 +0200, Andrus wrote: Greg, You need to get one of the experimental builds that include slotted support. Take a look at http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/postgresql/wiki/ExperimentalFAQ and the page linked to

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrading side by side in Gentoo

2008-11-13 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:41:35 +0200, Andrus wrote: > Greg, > >> You need to get one of the experimental builds that include slotted >> support. Take a look at >> http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/postgresql/wiki/ExperimentalFAQ and the >> page linked to by the blog article you mentioned at >> http:

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrading side by side in Gentoo

2008-11-13 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:47:15 -0500, Guy Rouillier wrote: > To answer your question directly, you won't find a prepackaged solution to > running simultaneous version of PG (or any other software package) on > Gentoo. That's not how Gentoo is designed to be used. Having said that, You are contrad

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrading side by side in Gentoo

2008-11-13 Thread Andrus
Greg, You need to get one of the experimental builds that include slotted support. Take a look at http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/postgresql/wiki/ExperimentalFAQ and the page linked to by the blog article you mentioned at http://dev-zero.ch/blog/archives/6-PostgreSQL-Status.html Thank you.

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrading side by side in Gentoo

2008-11-12 Thread Greg Smith
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Andrus wrote: How to install latest version in gentoo side-by side so that old version is not touched? You need to get one of the experimental builds that include slotted support. Take a look at http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/postgresql/wiki/ExperimentalFAQ and the pa

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrading side by side in Gentoo

2008-11-12 Thread Guy Rouillier
Andrus wrote: I have separate production server running "PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)" This is a bad idea. I run Gentoo at home on a workstation, and I like the approach it uses. But it

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrading side by side in Gentoo

2008-11-12 Thread Adrian Klaver
- "Adriana Alfonzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *can you teach me?? i don't know unsuscribe!!! please..* > > Raymond O'Donnell escribió: > > On 12/11/2008 17:37, Adriana Alfonzo wrote: > > > >> *no more mesages please* > >> > > > > You have subscribed to a mailing list, or someone has done

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrading side by side in Gentoo

2008-11-12 Thread Adriana Alfonzo
*can you teach me?? i don't know unsuscribe!!! please..* Raymond O'Donnell escribió: On 12/11/2008 17:37, Adriana Alfonzo wrote: *no more mesages please* You have subscribed to a mailing list, or someone has done it on your behalf. If you don't want any posts from the list, please unsubscr

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrading side by side in Gentoo

2008-11-12 Thread Adriana Alfonzo
*no more mesages please* Andrus escribió: I have separate production server running "PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)" and want to upgrade this to something newer. I can allow some hours of down

[GENERAL] Upgrading side by side in Gentoo

2008-11-12 Thread Andrus
I have separate production server running "PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)" and want to upgrade this to something newer. I can allow some hours of downtime for upgrade at night. I have found