Hi
Currently it looks like packages that build extensions have:
Requires: postgresql94-server
e.g.
# repoquery -i -R plr93-0:8.3.0.15-1.f20.x86_64 | grep server
postgresql93-server
but this means they can be installed against any PostgreSQL server,
whether or not it's compatible.
Extensions should have a Requires: definition for the exact server
version they're compiled against.
As that might be annoying to maintain, I'm wondering if we can use RPM's
auto-buildrequires stuff to grab the server version, have the server
package Provides: it, and then auto-add appropriate Requires: like RPM
does with libc:
Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.14)(64bit)
or Perl:
perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.18.2)
That way it won't be possible to install extensions against an
incompatible server binary.
Thoughts?
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