Update RedHat family installation instructions

Consistently refer to "RedHat family" instead of listing individual
distributions. Include explicit mention of Oracle Linux, and which
versions it ships with by default.

Clarify exactly which distribtutions are supported by the yum
repository.

diff --git a/templates/pages/download.html b/templates/pages/download.html
index 1da88864ab7d56f3e849abd81eca635acf9e6e31..7053d58eaa4cd4d9662e846f7b1df95968f8128d 100644 (file)
--- a/templates/pages/download.html
+++ b/templates/pages/download.html
@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ systems:
  </li>
  <li>Linux
   <ul>
-   <li><a href="/download/linux/redhat/">RedHat/CentOS/Fedora/Scientific</a> families Linux</li>
-   <li><a href="/download/linux/debian/">Debian</a> GNU/Linux</li>
-   <li><a href="/download/linux/ubuntu/">Ubuntu</a> Linux</li>
-   <li><a href="/download/linux/suse/">SuSE</a> and OpenSuSE</li>
+ <li><a href="/download/linux/redhat/">RedHat</a> family Linux (including CentOS/Fedora/Scientific/Oracle variants)</li>
+ <li><a href="/download/linux/debian/">Debian</a> GNU/Linux and derivatives</li>
+ <li><a href="/download/linux/ubuntu/">Ubuntu</a> Linux and derivatives</li>
+ <li><a href="/download/linux/suse/">SuSE</a> and OpenSuSE</li>
    <li><a href="/download/linux/">Other</a> Linux</li>
   </ul>
  </li>

diff --git a/templates/pages/download/linux.html b/templates/pages/download/linux.html
index 8fcb58e22d1e43600d06c6e25a35790873fc7eb0..569995165d7e256115147b7a4f49c2775d4ac817 100644 (file)
--- a/templates/pages/download/linux.html
+++ b/templates/pages/download/linux.html
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ are using one of the major Linux distributions, you should read the
 distribution specific instructions:
 </p>
 <ul>
- <li><a href="/download/linux/redhat/">RedHat/CentOS/Fedora/Scientific</a> families Linux</li>
- <li><a href="/download/linux/debian/">Debian</a> GNU/Linux</li>
- <li><a href="/download/linux/ubuntu/">Ubuntu</a> Linux</li>
+ <li><a href="/download/linux/redhat/">RedHat</a> family Linux (including CentOS/Fedora/Scientific/Oracle variants)</li>
+ <li><a href="/download/linux/debian/">Debian</a> GNU/Linux and derivatives</li>
+ <li><a href="/download/linux/ubuntu/">Ubuntu</a> Linux and derivatives</li>
  <li><a href="/download/linux/suse/">SuSE</a> and OpenSuSE</li>
 </ul>
 

diff --git a/templates/pages/download/linux/redhat.html b/templates/pages/download/linux/redhat.html
index 2919243fcfd07c40e3c201754f0873c7c39dc6ae..278fa75bde152843991c627fc726ce2385c21403 100644 (file)
--- a/templates/pages/download/linux/redhat.html
+++ b/templates/pages/download/linux/redhat.html
@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
 {%extends "base/page.html"%}
-{%block title%}Linux downloads (RedHat/CentOS/Fedora/Scientific){%endblock%}
+{%block title%}Linux downloads (RedHat family){%endblock%}
 {%block contents%}
 
-<h1>Linux downloads (RedHat/CentOS/Fedora/Scientific)</h1>
+<h1>Linux downloads (RedHat family)</h1>
 <p>
+The RedHat family of distributions includes RedHat Enterprise Linux,
+CentOS, Fedora, Scientific Linux, Oracle Linux and others.
 PostgreSQL is available on these platforms by default. However,
 each version of the platform normally "snapshots" a specific version of
 PostgreSQL that is then supported throughout the lifetime of this platform.
 Since this can often mean a different version than preferred, the PostgreSQL
-project provides a repository of packages of all supported versions.
+project provides a <a href="#yum">repository</a> of packages of all
+supported versions for the most common distributions.
 </p>
 <p>
 Should packages not be available for your distribution, or there are
@@ -38,11 +41,11 @@ the distribution:
    <th class="colLast">Version</th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
-   <td class="colFirst">RHEL/CentOS/SL 5</td>
+   <td class="colFirst">RHEL/CentOS/SL/OL 5</td>
    <td class="colLast">8.1 (also supplies package postgresql84)</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
-   <td class="colFirst">RHEL/CentOS/SL 6</td>
+   <td class="colFirst">RHEL/CentOS/SL/OL 6</td>
    <td class="colLast">8.4</td>
   </tr>
   <tr class="lastrow">
@@ -78,7 +81,7 @@ version number as required):
 
 <h3>Post-installation</h3>
 <p>
-Due to policies for RedHat style distributions, the PostgreSQL installation
+Due to policies for RedHat family distributions, the PostgreSQL installation
 will not be enabled for automatic start or have the database initialized
 automatically. To make your database installation complete, you need to
 perform these two steps:
@@ -93,7 +96,7 @@ systemctl enable postgresql.service
 </code>
 </p>
 
-<h2>PostgreSQL Yum Repository</h2>
+<a name="yum"></a><h2>PostgreSQL Yum Repository</h2>
 <p>
 If the version supplied by your operating system is not the one you want,
 you can use the PostgreSQL Yum Repository. This repository will integrate
@@ -102,6 +105,14 @@ updates for all supported versions of PostgreSQL throughout the support
 <a href="/support/versioning/">lifetime</a> of PostgreSQL.
 </p>
 <p>
+The PostgreSQL yum repository currently supports RedHat Enterprise Linux,
+CentOS and ScientificLinux versions 5.x and 6.x, as well as current versions
+of Fedora. Note that due to the short support cycle on Fedora, all versions
+are not available on this platform, and we recommend not using Fedora for
+server deployments. All distributions are supported on both x86_64 and
+i386 architectures.
+</p>
+<p>
 To use the yum repository, you must first install the <i>repository RPM</i>.
 To do this, download the correct RPM from the
 <a href="http://yum.postgresql.org/repopackages.php">repository RPM listing</a>,