Re: Stuart McGraw 2018-03-23 <b6b63791-71bc-b005-8d12-8f823e985673@mtneva.com>
> So what I was thinking of was rebuilding the Pgdg Ubuntu source
> package (I'm assuming one is available somewhere). I have had
> good results on Fedora backporting current versions of Postgresql
> from later fedora's to my invariably outdated version of Fedora
> by rebuilding the later version's Fedora postgresql source rpm.
> This produces an installable binary package that will satisfy
> the dependencies of all those other programs eliminating the
> need to rebuild them. I was guessing I could do something
> similar in the Ubuntu world. But, moot now fortunately :-)
Fwiw, all the packages on apt.postgresql.org are built from the same
source package for all distributions (with only the version number
changed to reflect the build target), so simply rebuilding the source
package for your OS would definitely work.
"apt-get source postgresql-10" will download it.
(Fine print: there's a few tweaks [1] applied to cater for older
distributions that lack newer features, e.g. the postgresql-10
(source) package in Debian wheezy and Ubuntu trusty disables the
systemd support, but that's rare exceptions, and really only applies
to the "old" distributions still supported.)
Re the original "where is artful" question, we try to support the
non-LTS releases, but it didn't work out this time. We'll add 18.10
if it becomes clear that the 18.04 LTS packages are incompatible with
it.
Christoph
[1] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgapt.git;a=blob;f=jenkins/generate-pgdg-source;hb=HEAD#l181