8.3.4 rpms for Opensuse10.3 64bit

Gerd K�nig wrote:

a few months ago we started using Postgres on Opensuse10.3-64bit.
We installed Postgres 8.3.1 with the (at that time) latest available rpm's.
But now Postgres' current version is 8.3.4 and I'm wondering why there
are no new rpm's for Opensuse ?!?!

The answer is quite simply that no one is volunteering to do the work.

2008/9/23 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>:

Gerd König wrote:

a few months ago we started using Postgres on Opensuse10.3-64bit.
We installed Postgres 8.3.1 with the (at that time) latest available
rpm's.
But now Postgres' current version is 8.3.4 and I'm wondering why there
are no new rpm's for Opensuse ?!?!

The answer is quite simply that no one is volunteering to do the work.

Oh, I thought you were looking after that build. If it's not being
maintained, we'll need to remove it from the download pages unless
someone else can volunteer?

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On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 09:06 +0100, Dave Page wrote:

2008/9/23 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>:

Gerd König wrote:

a few months ago we started using Postgres on Opensuse10.3-64bit.
We installed Postgres 8.3.1 with the (at that time) latest available
rpm's.
But now Postgres' current version is 8.3.4 and I'm wondering why there
are no new rpm's for Opensuse ?!?!

The answer is quite simply that no one is volunteering to do the work.

Oh, I thought you were looking after that build. If it's not being
maintained, we'll need to remove it from the download pages unless
someone else can volunteer?

I'll look at doing that. We need the SUSE builds also.

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PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

Oh, I thought you were looking after that build. If it's not being
maintained, we'll need to remove it from the download pages unless
someone else can volunteer?

I'll look at doing that. We need the SUSE builds also.

Great, thanks Simon. If you can commit to ongoing maintenance then
we'll get you on the packagers list so you can get advance notice of
releases and having input on the scheduling details.

--
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 10:05 +0100, Dave Page wrote:

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

Oh, I thought you were looking after that build. If it's not being
maintained, we'll need to remove it from the download pages unless
someone else can volunteer?

I'll look at doing that. We need the SUSE builds also.

Great, thanks Simon. If you can commit to ongoing maintenance then
we'll get you on the packagers list so you can get advance notice of
releases and having input on the scheduling details.

Well, strangely, committing to ongoing maintenance will be easier than
doing the first one. ;-)

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PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support

Hi,

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 09:49 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:

I'll look at doing that. We need the SUSE builds also.

I actually built 8.3.4 on SLES 10.2 on..err..Friday, while building
Fedora/RH RPMs. 8.3.1 spec of SLES is broken IMHO, and it requires
special attention from someone who is experienced in packaging (me :-) )
and who is familiar with pg code..

I fixed spec file. The only remaining issue is libpgport.a. If someone
who is familiar to PG code can comment on how this file is built, I can
push that spec file to my repo, so that Simon or others can continue
maintaining it. That file is built on Fedora/RHEL, but I'm not sure why
SLES skips it. I need that file for Slony-I on SLES,since AFAICS Slony
version is 1.2.6 on SLES :-(

I don't have access to that SLES server. I'll ask my friend to post the
spec to me, and I'll let you know about the status.

Regards,
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On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 21:05 +0300, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:

Hi,

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 09:49 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:

I'll look at doing that. We need the SUSE builds also.

I actually built 8.3.4 on SLES 10.2 on..err..Friday, while building
Fedora/RH RPMs. 8.3.1 spec of SLES is broken IMHO, and it requires
special attention from someone who is experienced in packaging (me :-) )
and who is familiar with pg code..

I fixed spec file. The only remaining issue is libpgport.a. If someone
who is familiar to PG code can comment on how this file is built, I can
push that spec file to my repo, so that Simon or others can continue
maintaining it. That file is built on Fedora/RHEL, but I'm not sure why
SLES skips it. I need that file for Slony-I on SLES,since AFAICS Slony
version is 1.2.6 on SLES :-(

I don't have access to that SLES server. I'll ask my friend to post the
spec to me, and I'll let you know about the status.

Having looked at where we are now, it's going to take more than a little
work to get everything in order. Peter had a good go at it, but that was
a few releases ago.

I've been wanting to make SUSE releases better for a few years now, so
am happy to take this on long term. It's not a snap decision since I
build on OpenSUSE daily, but from source, not RPMs.

As you say, you're in a better position to sort out a stopgap in the
short term and I can then take on the task after feature freeze when
I'll have more time. In any case, we'll need to make them as consistent
as possible between different Linuxes so I'll be relying on your
packaging experience.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support

Dave Page wrote:

2008/9/23 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>:

Gerd K�nig wrote:

a few months ago we started using Postgres on Opensuse10.3-64bit.
We installed Postgres 8.3.1 with the (at that time) latest available
rpm's.
But now Postgres' current version is 8.3.4 and I'm wondering why there
are no new rpm's for Opensuse ?!?!

The answer is quite simply that no one is volunteering to do the work.

Oh, I thought you were looking after that build. If it's not being
maintained, we'll need to remove it from the download pages unless
someone else can volunteer?

I am looking after it, but I cannot guarantee real-time releases with
the resources available to me. Certainly, one or two more people
joining the looking after would be welcome. I did some work recently to
put all the pieces in place, so at this time we basically only need to
replace the tarballs and release once in a while.

Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 09:49 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:

I'll look at doing that. We need the SUSE builds also.

I actually built 8.3.4 on SLES 10.2 on..err..Friday, while building
Fedora/RH RPMs. 8.3.1 spec of SLES is broken IMHO, and it requires
special attention from someone who is experienced in packaging (me :-) )
and who is familiar with pg code..

Yeah, as you can see here

https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=server:database:postgresql

SLES builds have been broken for a while. I have not analyzed that yet.
Bugs and patches welcome.

Hi Peter,

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 23:09 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

SLES builds have been broken for a while. I have not analyzed that
yet.
Bugs and patches welcome.

https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pgcore/repo/rpm/suse/8.3/SLES-10/postgresql.spec

(it is using self-signed cert, so please ignore SSL warnings)

I applied a few cosmetic changes, too. This version builds on SLES 10.2
cleanly.

I also found the reason why libpgport.a is removed (see spec file for
that). If you don't have any objections, I'm inclined to remove that
part from spec, so that we can compile Slony-I, too.

This is not a very good spec file for me, but at least it compiles.

Regards,
--
Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE
devrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr
http://www.gunduz.org

On Dienstag, 23. September 2008 Simon Riggs wrote:

maintaining postgreSQL

Thanks for your work Peter, I hope your updates will be found on
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/database:/postgresql/
also, where the "official" updates are.

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Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:

Hi Peter,

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 23:09 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

SLES builds have been broken for a while. I have not analyzed that
yet.
Bugs and patches welcome.

https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pgcore/repo/rpm/suse/8.3/SLES-10/postgresql.spec

(it is using self-signed cert, so please ignore SSL warnings)

I applied a few cosmetic changes, too. This version builds on SLES 10.2
cleanly.

I also found the reason why libpgport.a is removed (see spec file for
that). If you don't have any objections, I'm inclined to remove that
part from spec, so that we can compile Slony-I, too.

This is not a very good spec file for me, but at least it compiles.

Regards,
--
Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE
devrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr
http://www.gunduz.org

Hi,

Google led me to this forum (and this post) for which I am very grateful.
I'd be willing to help but I have neither the knowledge nor many resources
besides the Net. I am a developer using Postgres as my DB. But anyway if
there's something I could do, please shout.

Is there any further news on this post yet?

Thanks & Best Regards - JB

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