On Monday 13 August 2001 22:28, Alan Gutierrez wrote:
> Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > At the risk of starting to stray OT for this list, how do you go about
> > installing SRPMS - I've never done anything like that before.
> An easier way to do this would be to download the postgresql tarball.
Nope. If you have enough to recompile the tarball, you just (as root):
rpm --rebuild postgresql-x.y.z-rPGDG.src.rpm
Make a dump of the old database at this point, if upgrading...
cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 (or whichever architecture you have)
rpm -Uvh whichever-rpms-you-want.i386.rpm
It's easier -- much easier -- to rebuild from source via RPM than to build
and hand install from tarball, if you don't need too custom of a setup.
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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