Thread: 7.3.3 upgrade with RPMs on RH 8.0

i'm trying to figure out an error message i enoountered while upgrading
a RH8.0 system from 7.3.2 to 7.3.3 using RPMs. i was about to post asking
why the upgrade is failing, but researching the problem leads me to ask a
different question.

when i initially went to install

postgresql-pl-7.3.3-1PGDG.i386.rpm

it gave me the following message

error: Failed dependencies:
 perl(Pg) is needed by postgresql-pl-7.3.3-1PGDG

this confused me, because i thought the perl stuff was installed:

rpm -qa | grep perl
...
perl-5.8.0-55
...
perl-DBI-1.30-1
perl-DBD-Pg-1.13-5
...

when going back to fact check, i was suprised to see that despite the
message, rpm -qa on the system in question now shows the rpm as installed:

[root@localhost 7.3.3]# rpm -qa | grep postg
postgresql-7.3.3-1PGDG
postgresql-pl-7.3.3-1PGDG
...

so for the moment, i'm going to presume from the output of rpm -aq that it
is installed, despite the error message. am i wrong about this, or is a
bogus error message being emitted for some obscure reason?

richard
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Richard Welty                                         rwelty@averillpark.net
Averill Park Networking                                         518-573-7592
    Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 12:12:48 -0400 (EDT) Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net> wrote:

> i'm trying to figure out an error message i enoountered while upgrading
> a RH8.0 system from 7.3.2 to 7.3.3 using RPMs.

ok, i discovered a mistake in my original report. i wasn't trying to install

> postgresql-pl-7.3.3-1PGDG.i386.rpm

i was trying to install

postgresql-contrib-7.3.3

when i got

> error: Failed dependencies:
>  perl(Pg) is needed by postgresql-contrib-7.3.3-1PGDG

and the following is still correct:

> this confused me, because i thought the perl stuff was installed:

> rpm -qa | grep perl
> ..
> perl-5.8.0-55
> ..
> perl-DBI-1.30-1
> perl-DBD-Pg-1.13-5
> ..

so who supplies perl(Pg) for postgresql-contrib if it doesn't come from
postgresql-pl or from perl-DBD-Pg-1.13-5?

should i just rpm -ivh --nodepends and hope? right now my development
system is broken because i need pgcrypto and it's part of contrib...

richard
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Richard Welty                                         rwelty@averillpark.net
Averill Park Networking                                         518-573-7592
    Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security

On Friday 25 July 2003 19:48, Richard Welty wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 12:12:48 -0400 (EDT) Richard Welty
<rwelty@averillpark.net> wrote:
> > i'm trying to figure out an error message i enoountered while upgrading
> > a RH8.0 system from 7.3.2 to 7.3.3 using RPMs.
>
> ok, i discovered a mistake in my original report. i wasn't trying to
> install
>
> > postgresql-pl-7.3.3-1PGDG.i386.rpm
>
> i was trying to install
>
> postgresql-contrib-7.3.3
>
> when i got
>
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >  perl(Pg) is needed by postgresql-contrib-7.3.3-1PGDG
>
> and the following is still correct:
> > this confused me, because i thought the perl stuff was installed:
> >
> > rpm -qa | grep perl
> > ..
> > perl-5.8.0-55
> > ..
> > perl-DBI-1.30-1
> > perl-DBD-Pg-1.13-5
> > ..
>
> so who supplies perl(Pg) for postgresql-contrib if it doesn't come from
> postgresql-pl or from perl-DBD-Pg-1.13-5?
>
> should i just rpm -ivh --nodepends and hope? right now my development
> system is broken because i need pgcrypto and it's part of contrib...

Should be safe to nodeps it. There is (was?) a "Pg" module for perl separate
from the DBD-Pg but it shouldn't interfere with the crypto stuff (it's in C
iirc). You're not the only one to get bitten by this - see archives for
details.
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