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#1 2009-09-11 12:24:38

layton
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[SOLVED] Old PKGBUILDs (postgresql in particular)

Hey,

I recently moved to Arch Linux! I was running Gentoo a couple of years, then switched to Kubuntu (kde fan) which was very disappointing and am now trying Arch. So far, I'm quite impressed. To my question...

For a certain application I need postgresql 8.2. Unfortunately, Pacman has only 8.3 in extra. I read the wiki and found out that old PKGBUILDS could be found in the SVN. Unfortunately I could not find postgresql 8.2. On the forums I learned that some point in time ARCH migrated from CVS to SVN, so basically I needed a file in that old CVS (probably postgresql-libs as well). Is there still any way to get to that CVS? Or is there any other way to get those old PKGBUILDS?

Thanks!

Last edited by layton (2009-09-17 11:50:12)

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#2 2009-09-11 13:03:05

tomk
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Re: [SOLVED] Old PKGBUILDs (postgresql in particular)

Change $pkgver back to 8.2 in the current PKGBUILD, andd see how that goes. You may need to downgrade some deps as well.

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#3 2009-09-12 17:35:17

layton
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Re: [SOLVED] Old PKGBUILDs (postgresql in particular)

Change $pkgver back to 8.2 in the current PKGBUILD, andd see how that goes. You may need to downgrade some deps as well.

Yeah I was afraid it would come down to something like this. But I'll try it next week. Thanks!

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#4 2009-09-12 18:01:30

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Re: [SOLVED] Old PKGBUILDs (postgresql in particular)

Might want to look at this layton:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrade_packages


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#5 2009-09-13 13:36:57

layton
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Re: [SOLVED] Old PKGBUILDs (postgresql in particular)

Thanks for the link! Hadn't read that wiki page yet. The good news is that I managed to build packages of postgresql-8.2.14 and postgresql-libs-8.2.14 with only changing the filenames and MD5 strings in the PKGBUILDs from the ABS tree. Bad news is that I have "redland" installed which needs at least postgresql 8.3 and in turn is a dependecy for KDE sad. I guess it is not possible to have multiple versions of postgresql installed ? Does Arch have the concept of slotted installs?

BUT.. I have a laptop with ARCH that runs gnome which does not depend on postgresql. I'm going to try the same steps on that machine...

At least I get a decent lesson of ABS and package management in Arch wink

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#6 2009-09-17 11:49:05

layton
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Re: [SOLVED] Old PKGBUILDs (postgresql in particular)

Hey,

Did the same on my laptop which had no deep rooted dependency for postgresql 8.3 and it worked!

Thanks for you help!

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