Peter Hopfgartner wrote:> Dear CentOS developers
>
> I would like to have ask some questions about the PostgreSQL and PHP
> packages in the current Testing repository for CentOS 5.
>
> In http://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/TestingRepo there is a note, that the
> testing period is about 3 weeks. Currently, the PostgreSQL and PHP
> packages in http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/SRPMS were created in
> September 08.
>
> Do the developers need more feedback about the packages in testing? Is
> there something (a wiki page, a ticket in the bug tracker or something
> else) where the feedback can be collected?
>
>
I've tried the packaged on our development server, an Opteron server
with a curent CentOS5-x86_64 installation with 9 GB of postgresql data,
a good part of which geografical data.
Basically, until now everything runs as expected. No problems with the
selected packages.
Regards,
Peter> Is there a testing plan for the packages (works with this and that
> software, upgrade from base works)?
>
> What is the best way I can help? Simply sending feedback to the ML?
>
> Is there a kind of policy for the upstream version, something like:
> version is expected to be in the next major Red Hat release, must be
> part of Upstream Web Stack or another Upstream product. Casting this to
> a concrete question: Can upgrades to PHP 5.2.8 or PostgreSQL 8.2.11 be
> expected to happen.
>
> And is there already a concrete plan to move those 2 packages to Plus
> [http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/centosplus/]?
>
> Regards and thank you for this great distribution. The more I work with
> it the more I like it.
>
> Peter
>
>
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