PostgreSQL mgmt on Fedora: pg_cluster-like tools?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Sep 12 06:21:22 UTC 2008
Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 01:04 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> I agree that the package manager should have the ability to install
>> multiple versions of things - and not just in this case.
Packaging, not a package manager decides that. RPM and yum can install
parallel versions just fine and do that for dozens of packages in the
repository.
But,
>> what/who should determine which executables/libraries go in the
>> default path?
>
> rpm -ivh postgresql-set-default-8.3-1.noarch.f9.rpm
>
> :)
>
> This will symlink executables and libraries to default path and leave
> the rest outside the path.
>
> How does it sound?
Sounds like duplicating what is available as part of alternatives package.
Rahul
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