[gentoo-user] Stable postgresql

[gentoo-user] Stable postgresql

[Bruno Lustosa]

Hello, list.

I'm setting up a pgpool-II cluster (made an ebuild, available at
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196300) of postgresql servers,
and when I looked for the available versions on portage, I was kinda
astonished to see version 8.0.13 marked as stable, and both 8.1.9 and
8.2.4 marked as unstable.
The 8.0 tree is from 2004, 8.1 tree from 2005, and 8.2 was first
released on 2006, almost one year ago.
I exchanged a few emails with a postgresql developer, and he told me
that I should go with the 8.2 tree.
The developer stated clearly that there is no reason to stick to 8.0,
and the benefits of 8.2 (improvements, bugfixes, etc) were way too
many.
So, I was asking myself how is the process of making one package going
from unstable to stable on Gentoo.
In fact, when I told him my distro's stable version was 8.0.13, he
asked if I was running Debian :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Stable postgresql

[Albert Hopkins]

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 17:28 -0200, Bruno Lustosa wrote:
[blah]
> So, I was asking myself how is the process of making one package going
> from unstable to stable on Gentoo.
> In fact, when I told him my distro's stable version was 8.0.13, he
> asked if I was running Debian :)

     1. Check bugzilla to see if there is something preventing it from
        going stable or if there is already a request to go stable.
     2. If above is false submit a bug request to go stable.

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