Re: PostgreSQL PKGNAME

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 09:02:35AM +0100, Adam wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Before I commit the update for PostgreSQL packages, I would like to change 
> their PKGNAME to postgresql-xxx instead of postgresql90-xxx, 
> postgresql83-xxx, postgresql82-xxx. The same way as MySQL packages are named. 
> 
> After that, we'll have, for example:
> postgresql-server-9.0.2, postgresql-client-9.0.2
> NOT: postgresql90-server-9.0.2, postgresql90-client-9.0.2
> 
> Any objections?

this is going to cause problem when updating, especially when updating
from binary packages. For example, if you deliberately installed
postgresql-8.3.x, 'pkgin full-upgrade' will remove it and install 9.0.2
instead. This is bad, making package upgrade painfull

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