Re: srpm odd spec file?

Hi,

On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 13:17 -0400, Mladen Gogala wrote:
> I was able to install the new  binaries and to upgrade my existing
> database without losing any data.

Great, thanks for the report.

> The only inconvenient thing is that for some reason package config 
> wasn't found by the CPAN utility, I had to enter the paths to the bin,
> lib and include directory manually. Once linked, however, DBD::Pg
> 2.17.1 was perfectly functional. 

Uhh... So I will probably need to include perl-DBD-Pg RPM in my repo,
and build it to match the new layout...

> For some reason, ODBC drivers are missing, 


Upstream did not release new ODBC driver for 9.0, and we have a report
that 8.4 driver does not work against 9.0:

http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/DIIE.000009850001E2A1@kuhnle.com

That's why I did not package it yet.

> but  ODBCng can be installed and they work flawlessly. 

FWIW, ODBCng was EOLed last year, so you might want to wait for the
official driver.

Regards,

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