On 02/09/04 09:13 +0000, jitendras@vsnl.com wrote:

Devadas bhagat wrote (Linuxers Digest, Vol 17, Issue 3)

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"On a server,Debian is usable, except that the Postfix and PostgreSQL support are lacking. On my workstation, apt would be broken left, right and center."

We have used postgrsql on debian as server for webbased application fori voterlist.Am I missing something?

Versions :)

I am well ahead of the distribution curve on most distributions except Gentoo right now with PostgreSQL, and I run the Postfix snapshot.

Oh, and Perl (which I should upgrade to 5.8.5 sometime soon):

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 2) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.4.20-18.7, archname=i686-linux-thread-multi-ld uname='linux evita.devdas.geek 2.4.20-18.7 #1 thu may 29 08:32:50 edt 2003 i686 unknown ' config_args='' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=define usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gdbm' ccversion='', gccversion='2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-113)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='long double', nvsize=12, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=4, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc libc=/lib/libc-2.2.5.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.8.2 gnulibc_version='2.2.5' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/perl/lib/5.8.2/i686-linux-thread-multi-ld/CORE' cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LONG_DOUBLE USE_LARGE_FILES PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT Built under linux Compiled at Dec 21 2003 21:46:05 @INC: /usr/local/perl/lib/5.8.2/i686-linux-thread-multi-ld /usr/local/perl/lib/5.8.2 /usr/local/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.2/i686-linux-thread-multi-ld /usr/local/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.2 /usr/local/perl/lib/site_perl .

Devdas Bhagat