[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk-postgresql-1.8.6-1.el5.noarch.rpm requires postgresql84-contrib

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:27:16AM -0700, Jeremy Davis wrote:
> 
> I am trying to upgrade to Spacewalk 1.8 and hit a dependency issue with
> spacewalk-postgresql package.  It is requiring postgresql84-contrib when I
> would like to use the postgresql91-contrib.

I really recommend separating the task of upgrading Spacewalk from the
task of attempting to use different version of PostgreSQL than shipped
with your version of RHEL/OS. With the later is introduce yet another
layer of potential incompatibility to your setup.

> Is there anyway that I can use
> the 91 package instead of the 84 package? If I can't use the 9.1 package
> would using the 84 packages with a 9.1 database going to cause any issues?

The contrib package has to match the PostgreSQL server version,
really. Is the database server on the same machine as the Spacewalk
installation, or is that an external database?

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat