Hi Oliver,
you said "There will never be an official Debian package of 8.3 for current
stable."
Any idea when 8.3 will make it to unstable?? Never delved into experimental
before and I am not sure I want to start now.
Oliver Elphick wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 11:28 -0500, Sean Davis wrote:
>> I have recently been convinced by a colleague to use debian (stable)
>> for our server. Now, I would like to install 8.3beta. I have been
>> running 8.3beta on another server and it (as usual) is quite stable.
>> How do I go about installing 8.3beta (using apt, if possible) on the
>> debian stable? Feel free to tell me to ask on another list/forum, if
>> that is the best answer.
>
> There will never be an official Debian package of 8.3 for current
> stable. What you can do is download the source files from
> http://packages.debian.org/experimental/postgresql-8.3 and then build
> postgresql-8.3 from source. The process will go something like this:
>
> [download postgresql-8.3_8.3~beta2-1.dsc
> postgresql-8.3_8.3~beta2.orig.tar.gz
> postgresql-8.3_8.3~beta2-1.diff.gz ]
>
> [cd to a working directory, then
> dpkg-source -x .../path/to/postgresql-8.3_8.3~beta2-1.dsc
> ]
>
> apt-get install devscripts
> cd postgresql-8.3
> debuild
>
> You will also have to install any packages that are reported as missing
> along the way; these are build dependencies. You can ignore the GPG
> signing at the end of the build, since the package is only for your own
> use.
>
> The binary packages will be placed in the parent directory. Install
> them with:
>
> dpkg -i *.deb
>
> This will not sort out dependencies for you. If any dependencies are
> missing, install them with apt and repeat the dpkg command.
>
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