Bug 33791 – PostgreSQL 7.4 released and stable

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description aent 2003-11-18 17:24:54 UTC]

PostgreSQL 7.4 has now been released and is stable, and needs to be added to
portage :)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. N/A

[Comment 1 Masatomo Nakano (RETIRED) 2003-11-19 02:01:09 UTC]

Hi,

Yes. I'm working it.

I think it's good if postgresql becomes SLOTed package.
And I would like to split package into -server, -tools, -libs and -contrib etc.

Any idea?

[Comment 2 Michael Kefeder 2003-11-19 04:20:03 UTC]

to SLOT postgres is a very good idea... this way transitions can be more smooth, and i can even use 2 versions of postgres, old one for keeping up the existing DBs and new one for development, testing new features and preparing migration.

Splitting the package is a nice idea too, but i'm afraid there's no concept from gentoo yet about how to do this... would you use USE flags or different ebuilds? Bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12499 shows some discussion about this topic, you might also read the "duplicates" of that bug to see some other viewpoints about that.

Yours
 Mike

[Comment 3 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-11-19 04:47:24 UTC]

please don't split unless bug 12499 is resolved

[Comment 4 Masatomo Nakano (RETIRED) 2003-11-19 05:56:47 UTC]

I know that bug.
I've thought I would do after resolving that bug :)
I just wanted to know if postgresql user want to split postgresql.

[Comment 5 aent 2003-11-19 15:56:16 UTC]

For now until that bug is resolved I think we should just leave it as is...

I personally would perfer USE flags over separate packages...

but first we should just get 7.4 in portage ;)

[Comment 6 Masatomo Nakano (RETIRED) 2003-11-20 09:02:31 UTC]

now in CVS.

It's just bumped version.