Filip Rembiałkowski wrote:
>
> 2008/12/12 Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood at catalyst.net.nz 
> <mailto:mark.kirkwood at catalyst.net.nz>>
>
>     Is is required for master and slave hosts to run the same version
>     of slony? I guessing it probably is, but seems worthwhile checking
>     for sure.
>
>     For instance the case under consideration is:
>
>     host1  Slony 1.2.10 Postgres 8.2
>     host2  Slony 1.2.15 Postgres 8.3
>
>     Due to the restrictions of package management (Debian system in
>     this case) - to match the versions we'll have to roll our own
>     Slony package!
>
>
> are you sure about the restrictions?
> did you check possibilities of mixing packages from different 
> Debian/Ubuntu distributions?
>
> some of the following could work (not tested, might need some apt-fu):
>
> apt-get install slony1-bin/testing
> apt-get install slony1-bin/lenny
> apt-get install slony1-bin=1.2.15-1
> apt-get install slony1-bin/cockychicken #if on Ubuntu
>

Thanks, I'll have a go at something like that.

To those who suggested installing from source - thanks, and yeah it 
certainly seems much easier. However all the other systems have all 
their installed software under package management, so having one machine 
that's completely different is a recipe for inadvertent mistakes (if it 
does end up having to be a source install, I'll make a .deb out of it).

Cheers

Mark