On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:06 PM, ludovic coues<couesl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/9/9 Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> like to help get these up to date in any way I can. I can maintain
>> postgres and related packages if necessary.
>>
>>
> Common way to upgrade a package for bare user is to attach a updated
> PKGBUILD. CC the maintener is good too.
>
>
> This package look like it simply need to be "version bumped". I've just made
> the following change, and everything have compiled fine.
> pkgver=8.3.7 => pkgver=8.4.0
> pkgrel=3 => pkgrel=1
>
> md5sums=('1f172d5f60326e972837f58fa5acd130'
> '7d8ea2abb6a8cdacf35604bda659a34a'
> 'df6ddf9e2ab4700a3415f17c0f4f4172'
> '4d74f4227dc5e12bf95b3490758d86c9'
> '96f82c38f3f540b53f3e5144900acf17')
> =>
> md5sums=('7b7e91a2221e55fe1b167e663217a96d'
> '7d8ea2abb6a8cdacf35604bda659a34a'\
> 'df6ddf9e2ab4700a3415f17c0f4f4172'
> '4d74f4227dc5e12bf95b3490758d86c9'\
> '96f82c38f3f540b53f3e5144900acf17')
>
>
> In order to pass dependency check, postgresql-libs need to be updated too.
> You can find the PKGBUILD in abs.
>
postgresql 8.4 has a soname bump. You'll also need to rebuild all
packages that depends on it (or on postgresql-libs). That's why it's
taking time to have the update in the repo.
