Re: Fedora Core 1 Test Update: postgresql-7.3.4-10

[Lamar Owen <lowen pari edu>]

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 01:12 pm, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> Eventually, I'm hoping that Fedora Altnernatives will also be a
> place that people can go to get new and incompatible versions of
> software when they know they can deal with the incompatibilities.

That would be one good thing for FA to be.

> > Maybe by the time FC2 is out I can have the multiversion install stuff
> > working.

> Ah, the holy grail.  :-)

Yes, indeed.  I do have a rough roadmap, courtesy of Oliver Elphick, the 
Debian PostgreSQL maintainer.  He and I have conversed a good deal on this 
subject, and he has a proposal.  I  haven't gone over it with a fine tooth 
comb as yet, but there are a number of things I really like about it.

The gist of the proposal is to treat PostgreSQL the same way the kernel is 
treated.  That is, you don't upgrade kernels; you install the new one, and 
they coexist.  For PostgreSQL it's a little more complicated; but Oliver has 
most things right down the line.  I will post to the -devel list a proposal 
for it as soon as I have it distilled into a Fedora-ish form. 
-- 
Lamar Owen
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