[CentOS] RPM for postgresql 8-* for CentOS4?

[William L. Maltby]

On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 17:53 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 
> >There are postgres 8 rpms in the CentOS testing tree.
> >
> >http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2005-December/002017.html
> >
> >The latest version in there now is:
> >
> >postgresql-server-8.1.2
> >
> Hi All,
> 
> I have just tried this with limited success,
> 
> [racket at ibmlap ~]$ sudo /usr/bin/yum --enablerepo c4-testing install 
> postgresql-8.1.0-4.c4
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> dag                       100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> c4-testing                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> update                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  11 kB    00:00
> update    : ################################################## 23/23
> Added 1 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.96 seconds
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  35 kB    00:00
> extras    : ################################################## 159/159
> Added 26 new packages, deleted 0 old in 2.45 seconds
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for postgresql to pack into transaction set.
> postgresql-8.1.0-4.c4.i38 100% |=========================| 109 kB    00:01
> ---> Package postgresql.i386 0:8.1.0-4.c4 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libpq.so.4 for package: postgresql
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package postgresql-libs.i386 0:8.1.2-1.c4 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> =============================================================================
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
> =============================================================================
> Installing:
>  postgresql              i386       8.1.0-4.c4       c4-testing        2.7 M
> Installing for dependencies:
>  postgresql-libs         i386       8.1.2-1.c4       c4-testing        178 k
> 
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install      2 Package(s)
> Update       0 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
> Total download size: 2.8 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> (1/2): postgresql-8.1.0-4 100% |=========================| 2.7 MB    00:24
> (2/2): postgresql-libs-8. 100% |=========================| 178 kB    00:01
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> Transaction Test Succeeded
> Running Transaction
>   Installing: postgresql-libs              ######################### [1/2]
>   Installing: postgresql                   ######################### [2/2]
> 
> Installed: postgresql.i386 0:8.1.0-4.c4
> Dependency Installed: postgresql-libs.i386 0:8.1.2-1.c4
> Complete!
> 
> Then I did a whereis/which after running updatedb, and was expecting to 
> find pgsql in /usr/local/ or elsewhere, but nothing.
> 
> 
> [racket at ibmlap ~]$ rpm -qa | grep postgresql*
> postgresql-8.1.0-4.c4
> postgresql-libs-8.1.2-1.c4
> 
> [racket at ibmlap usr]$ sudo find / -name postgresql
> Password:
> /usr/bin/find: /proc/3991/task: No such file or directory
> /home/racket/downloads/postgresql
> 
> [racket at ibmlap pgsql]$ rpm -qi | grep postgresql*
> rpmq: no arguments given for query
> 
> Perhaps I'm still doing something fundamentally wrong? Cheers.
> 
> Mark Sargent.
> 
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"man whereis"
 ...BUGS
       Since whereis uses chdir(2V) ...

       whereis  has  a  hard-coded  path,  so may not always find what
       you’re looking for.

I suspect it goes somewhere like /usrshare... Do an updatedb and then
locate.


-- 
Bill
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