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f8rzd

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Registered: 2024-05-04

Posts: 5

[SOLVED] Standard way of dealing with outdated packages?

Postgresql is now on version 17 but arch packages has version 16.3 it is flagged outdated but it's not yet updated.

I expected archlinux to always have the fastest updates but with postgres it dosen't seem to have that (Why?).

As a person who wants to use postgresql 17 today how should I approach on installing it on my system without causing chaos to my system?

What comes to my mind is compiling postgres on my system placing all binaries in some random directory and adding it to PATH or using aur version.

I could potentially somehow fix my issue...
I posted this to ask for better directions if any and also asking why the official archlinux packages have not yet been updated.

Last edited by f8rzd (2024-10-26 08:14:57)

yataro

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Registered: 2024-03-09

Posts: 76

Re: [SOLVED] Standard way of dealing with outdated packages?

There's no standard way, your options are:

1) Docker (easiest)
2) postgresql17 in AUR
3) Manual install to /usr/local / ~/.local/ (most tedious)

I posted this to ask for better directions if any and also asking why the official archlinux packages have not yet been updated.

I believe you can ask appropriate maintainer on IRC / mailing lists.

f8rzd

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Registered: 2024-05-04

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] Standard way of dealing with outdated packages?

Thank you for the response

I'll consider this problem solved