Re: [OT] Installing 8.3beta on debian (stable)

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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