On 18/08/2014 1:28 pm, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 08/15/2014 02:22 PM, Ross Dougherty wrote:
>> I've been setting up PostgreSQL 9.3 on some CentOS 7 servers and ran
>> into a problem where the uuid-ossp module wasn't being provided by the
>> postgresql93-contrib-9.3.5-1PGDG.rhel7.x86_64 package.
>>
>> Upon investigating it appears that uuid is now disabled by default in
>> rhel7 builds and I had to rebuild the source RPM with --define 'uuid 1'.
>> Is there a reason for this change? README.rpm-dist still notes it as
>> being enabled by default.
> From the RPM changelog:
>
>
> * Thu Dec 12 2013 Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org> - 9.3.2-2PGDG
> - Initial cut for RHEL 7
> - Disable uuid builds on RHEL 7 temporarily, since uuid-devel is not
> available in the beta iso.
> - Fix builds when uuid support is disabled, by adding missing conditional.
> - Add process name to the status() call in init script.
> Patch from Darrin Smart
>
I believe this is no longer relevant as I had no issues installing
uid-devel and rebuilding the RPM so it's probably ok to re-enable it?