On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 16:27 +0000, nelson-m-marq...@ext.ptinovacao.pt wrote: > > Is there a special reason for having a virtual provides without > versioning?
PGDG RPMs in RHEL 6 can be installed in parallel, i.e., you can have 8.4 + on the same machine. OTOH, os supplied RPMs does not have any version number, and there are lots of packages that need postgresql-libs or postgresql, etc. We "Provide" version-less packages to satisfy os dependencies. Regards, -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer Community: devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/devrimgunduz
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