Re: RHEL5 postgresql94-contrib is broken, unsatisfied dependency on uuid-ossp

On 08/26/2014 12:07 AM, Devrim Gündüz wrote:
>> >  There's no explicit RPM-level dependency, just a shared object
>> > dependency. So at least some users will have no idea how to find this
>> > "libossp-uuid.so.15" that we require.
> Right. Let's fix it in the next set of releases.

Sounds good - A Requires: plus some references to EPEL being recommended
for RHEL/CentOS would do the job.

We don't need it for 9.4 though; the conditional uuid support may be
removed entirely and replaced with:


# Over time the package containing this has varied.  If in doubt use:
#   yum whatprovides /usr/lib64/libuuid.so
# to find out.
%if 0%{?rhel} == 5
BuildRequires: e2fsprogs-devel
%else
BuildRequires: libuuid-devel
%endif

and instead of --with-ossp-uuid to configure, use:

    --with-uuid=e2fs


then there's no need for core postgresql94 packages to depend on EPEL at
all anymore.


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