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From: Devrim Gündüz <[email protected]>
To: Pim Rupert <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: python-dateutil in pgdg96 rhel7 repo
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 13:38:21 +0300
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Hi Pim,

On Sat, 2017-02-18 at 14:07 +0100, Pim Rupert wrote:

> I noticed that the PostgreSQL 9.6 yum repository for RHEL/CentOS 7 overwrites
> the 'python-dateutil' package from the RHEL/CentOS 7 base repositories with a
> newer version. 

Right, because the python-dateutil package provided in RHEL 7 is not sufficient
for pgadmin4. That is why I had to add ~30 dependencies to PGDG yum repo, and
-dateutil is one of them.

> It would be great if the PostgreSQL yum repository followed best practices
> from the Safe Repo initiative. Ideally the PostgreSQL yum repository does not
> obsolete stock packages. 

Actually we *try* to do that, but there are some exceptions -- like this case.

Sorry for the inconvenience. 

Regards,
-- 
Devrim Gündüz
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR


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