-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/11/06 09:43, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Because of the transition to the multi-version postgresql packaging, we will > have the situation in etch that someone who just does "apt-get install > postgresql" (as has been the custom for many years) will always end up with > the old version 7.4 instead of the newer 8.1. (The reason that postgresql > points to postgresql-7.4 is so that people's servers will continue running, > because postgresql is 7.4 in sarge.) > > Now a couple of people have expressed worries about that and I was asked to > bring it up on -release. > > A couple of ideas that have been thrown around: > > - Prevent new installations of postgresql (without -x.y); allow only upgrades. > > - Depend on both 7.4 and 8.1. > > None of these or any of the more crazy ones are particularly appealing, > though.
Speaking as a user, I'd prefer having to specify the -x.y during the apt-get. It removes the ambiguity. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFBYM/S9HxQb37XmcRAkpyAJ0e9RJ860bee4ahxCg6aZ2ifDSBHwCeNDM+ brZVI6Sp6d7+cq03+EUoRnQ= =Ju2J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
