On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Devrim Gündüz <dev...@gunduz.org> wrote:
> > Hi, > > Currently, Spacewalk's PostgreSQL support depends on the stock RPMs > supplied by > the OS. However, we have several users out there who are using PostgreSQL > community repo (because they are up2date), and the packages are slightly > different than the Red Hat's packages. > > One change is that community RPMs allow multiple parallel version > installation, > so they use different directory layout, along with different init > script/unit > file name. We append PostgreSQL version number to both, so, instead of: > > service postgresql start > > we do > > service postgresql-9.6 start > > (or other major versions) > > I had to manually symlink -9.6 to versionless name, to be able to install > Spacewalk. If we can find a way to detect PostgreSQL unit file/init script > name, that would be awesome. > If you do not want to use the postgresql version from the OS, I'd recommend to setup a an external DB on a separate machine. https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall contains all the instructions, how to run Spacwalk with external DB. Regards, -- Tomas Lestach Red Hat Satellite Engineering, Red Hat > > Another thing is that spacewalk depends on /usr/bin/psql, which we supply > the > binary via alternatives, so fail to supply the dependency. Any chance we > can > change the dependency to postgresql (the package name), which provides > this? > That way, community RPMs can be used for the backend. > > I am not a Python hacker, but I'm willing to test any patches that people > can > provide. > > Thanks! > > Regards, > > -- > Devrim GÜNDÜZ > EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com > PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer > Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-devel mailing list > Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel >
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