> On May 20, 2025, at 02:30, Dan Mahoney (Ports) <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On May 19, 2025, at 22:47, Mathieu Arnold <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Well, you have three choices :
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>> - Upgrade your PostgreSQL server. Using packages means you upgrade
>> everything all the time.
>> - Build your own packages with the default PostgreSQL set to 15.
>> - Do not upgrade.
>>
>> The FreeBSD packages system, and ports, is a "rolling release", you have
>> to move with the flow.
Then what is the purpose of having four older (and still supported) versions of
Posgresql client/server in pkg at all?
>> PostgreSQL major version changes have always been difficult, it is not
>> new.
>> Until someone (hint, it could be you) automates the upgrades, or allows
>> multiple version installations by putting each in its own space, like
>> it's done in other oses, put things in lib/postgresqlXX/{bin,lib},
>> share/postgresqlXX, you will have to do so the upgrades manually, by
>> following the instructions in UPDATING.
As mentioned in my prior email, I’ve submitted a patch which allows to flavor
p5-DBD-Pg to lock it inline with a specific version of Pg server, I’ve tested
it with portlint and poudriere testport. The manifests correctly show that the
various versions are tied to the older versions of PG if you use those flavors,
but the default package retains the current behavior.
This would not be much extra effort on the build clusters and mirrors, could it
please be accepted?
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287047
-Dan
