Re: Setting default version in Poudriere

On Monday, July 8th, 2024 at 13:01, Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

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> 
> On 08/07/2024 13:24, Pat wrote:
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> > 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

Now that is a handy trick, and will probably work well for our needs!

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

Thank you!
Pat