[ELGIS] RFC: BuildRequires on postgresql84-devel or postgresql-devel

[Micha Silver]

On Scientific Linux 6 I'm trying to install PostGIS from the elgis repo
and getting an error about postgresql84:

[root at SL6 ~]# yum install postgis
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package postgis.x86_64 0:1.5.2-1.el5.elgis will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: proj >= 4.6 for package:
postgis-1.5.2-1.el5.elgis.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: geos >= 3.2 for package:
postgis-1.5.2-1.el5.elgis.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: postgresql84 >= 8.4 for package:
postgis-1.5.2-1.el5.elgis.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libgeos_c.so.1()(64bit) for package:
postgis-1.5.2-1.el5.elgis.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libproj.so.0()(64bit) for package:
postgis-1.5.2-1.el5.elgis.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package geos.x86_64 0:3.2.2-1.el6 will be installed
---> Package postgis.x86_64 0:1.5.2-1.el5.elgis will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: postgresql84 >= 8.4 for package:
postgis-1.5.2-1.el5.elgis.x86_64
---> Package proj.x86_64 0:4.7.0-1.el6 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: postgis-1.5.2-1.el5.elgis.x86_64 (elgis)
           Requires: postgresql84 >= 8.4
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest



On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 10:40 +0200, Peter Hopfgartner wrote:
> As Mathieu is finalizing the packages targeted at 5.6, we would like to have some opinions on whether packages as GDAL should BuildRequires on postgresql84-devel or postgresql-devel.
> Keep in mind that it was decided, that for 5.6 we target postgresql84 and php53, since the postgresql and php are really old now and a lot of software requires more recent versions.
> Depending on postgresql-devel has the advantage of wider compatibility, since it works on 5.5, too.
> Depending on postgresql-devel has the advantage that only one postgresql lib is installed, instead of libs for 8.1 and 8.4. 
> Further, I would propose that the same decision holds for mapserver and mapserver6, too.
> 
> Peter
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