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[Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx>]

Stuart Bishop wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> In the most recent launchpad-dependencies upload, Michael Barnett added
>> slony1-bin and postgresql-8.3-slony1 to launchpad-database-dependencies.
>>
>> I can see how these would be wanted in production, but are they really
>> needed for development?
> 
> If you want to run a local replicated environment for testing, yes.
> 
> (make -C database/replication devsetup)
> 
> I'm probably the only person who has ever done this though.
> 
>> I ask because Lucid doesn't ship postgresql-8.3-slony1 - it has
>> postgresql-8.4-slony1 instead - and before I look at making a build in
>> the PPA, I'd like to know whether that's actually needed.
> 
> I need slony1-bin & postgresql-8.4-slony1 and the identical version of
> slony as postgresql-8.3-slony1 for Hardy too while you are there  ;)

Hmm.. there's not even a postgresql-8.4 in Hardy, I dare say you need
that first before you worry about slony :-)

> No tests depend on this so we can drop things for now and revisit before
> Staging gets updated to Lucid.

Well, Lucid's not that far off. So I left it alone and put a version of
slony reverted to building against 8.3 into the Launchpad PPA for lucid,
rather than roll back the meta-lp-deps change.

Max.

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