>> >>> >> >>>https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2012-November/msg00146.ht >>>ml >> > >> >Basically: if you don't like the Requires list in the >> >spacewalk-postgresql package, just don't use it and install all >> >dependencies manually. >> >> I'd read that message but found "install all dependencies manually" left >> me with questions. > >And rightly so. ;-) You'd be on your own. If we add new dependency in >the future, you'll need to catch that during upgrade. > >> Primarily, What is the best "root" package of a dependency tree to get a >> non-db-specific install? spacewalk-base? > >That would be spacewalk-common. > >> Are there aspects (scripts, commands) of system setup using Postgres >>that >> I'd then be missing? > >The package spacewalk-postgresql contains only one file, defining the >db-backend value for spacewalk-setup. If you pass that value in >manually, you should be good to go. Other than this one file the >package is just a list of package dependencies. > >Another thing that you possibly could do is to create your own rpm >postgresql84-contrib with some high epoch which would just require >that postgresql-contrib-8.4 from the PostgreSQL repository -- that way >the dependency chain would be closed and you (possibly) could continue >to use spacewalk-postgresql. > >-- >Jan Pazdziora >Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat >
Hugely helpful info. Thank you. I also learned of and did a 'yum deplist' and walked through each dep manually. Knowing what the spacewalk-postgresql's function is helps a ton. I'll play with the idea of a wrapper rpm. _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
