Re: Setting default version in Poudriere

On 08/07/2024 13:24, Pat wrote:
> On Friday, July 5th, 2024 at 21:14, Daniel Lysfjord <lysfjord.daniel@smokepit.net> wrote:
> 
>> I would suggest just creating a port for postgres 15.6 in addition to
>> the 15.7 that's already in the ports tree
> 
> Thank you Daniel. That makes sense, but I do not know how to create a
> port. Can you point me to any documentation that would explain what I
> am missing? And apologies if there is something obvious that I
> missed.

In this case, all you need to do is look at the history of the 
databases/postgresql15-server port in eg. GitHub --

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/tree/main/databases/postgresql15-server

where you want to look at Makefile and distinfo in paticular.

You can see what was changed from the last update and basically revert 
those for your purposes.  Postgresql ports are unfortunately rather more 
complicated than most since they use a common base for all postgresql 
branches, but hopefully you can make sense of it.

OTOH, if you already have postgresql-15.6 installed anywhere, you can 
make a package tarball from that:

     pkg create -f tbz postgresql15-server-15.6

then use pkg-add to install it on a new machine.  You'll probably need 
postgresql15-client-15.6 as well.

	Cheers,

	Matthew