Fedora Core 1 Test Update: postgresql-7.3.4-10

[Lamar Owen]

On Friday 21 November 2003 01:43 pm, David Jee wrote:
> FYI, the GUI tools will not be integrated into Fedora Core at this
> present time.  Our latest GUI tools depend on a proprietary JVM that
> implements AWT and Swing, so they are not eligible for inclusion in
> Fedora.  We hope that we will eventually be able to compile and run them
> against libgcj, at which point we can integrate them into Fedora.

I kindof was afraid of that.

> However, the GUI tools will be available via sources.redhat.com/rhdb
> very soon.  We are also planning on setting up a yum-repository for all
> RHDB packages.

Are these different from the ones that hae been available there for some time?  
If so, how different?

> I want to mention two things about the rh-postgresql packages.  The
> first is that the backported patches in rh-postgresql are actually
> rolled into a giant 7.2M patch, which is a diff between the pristine
> 7.3.4 branch and our own branch that contains the backports.

How does this relate to version 7.4?  Are most of the backports from 7.4?  
(I'm thinking most are, but....)

> Another thing I'm wondering is whether it would be worthwhile to keep a
> pristine set of upstream postgresql packages.  For example, if for some
> reason something fails in the "rh-postgresql" set of packages, one can
> go back to the "postgresql" set of packages and see where the problem
> is.  What do you think about this?

Yeah, the more I think about it the more I think that's good.  SuSE syncs up 
periodically with my packages, too, as do other distributors, I'm sure.  So 
probably a good thing to keep it that way.

I released 7.4 upstream packages today, based on the work Kaj did, and built 
for Fedora Core.  They have trouble building on older dists, but I'm working 
on that.
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