Re: BUG #18833: libpq.so doesn't contain declared symbol in rpm --provides

On mardi, 11 mars 2025 10.11:27 h heure normale d’Europe centrale Álvaro Herrera wrote:

> On 2025-Mar-11, Bruno Friedmann wrote:

> > We (Bareos dev's team) build our software on what's distributed by the OS

> > editor. which means for RHEL9 libpq5-devel 13.20 (rhel)

> >

> > From time to time people want (for good reasons :-) ) use pgdg binaries,

> >

> > if you go that way libpq from pgdg is installed and as the rpm provides

> > all RH symbol you will get only this.

>

> Wouldn't this be solved if you built your software using the PGDG

> packages instead?  That should be compatible with both the PGDG _and_

> the RH packages.

And why we would do that ? pgdg is an additional third repository.

We have to build binaries that will work out of the box from the software vendor with restricted possibility. which is what we do.

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