Re: To remove or not to remove

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 at 16:10, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 08:17:50AM -0500, Peter Lai wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 8:14 AM Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 12:41:38PM +0100, Hauke Fath wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 05 Feb 2021 19:50:47 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > > > > Adam <adam%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
> > > > >
> > > > >> databases/postgresql95 - soon is going to reach end-of-life, and we
> > > > >> have 5 other versions
> > > > >
> > > > > While I don't have any desire personally to keep this, it is about to,
> > > > > on Feb 11, have a final release.
> > > >
> > > > While here: What is best practice to upgrade PostgreSQL within pkgsrc?
> > >
> > >
> >  Aren't there DESTDIR or PREFIX tricks you can play during (b)make install?
> > ((b)make should be run with the mk.conf for linking purposes).
> >
> >
> > > I'm still doing the good old pg_dumpall cycle for most installations.
> > > pg_upgrade is only used for the biggest database (> 100GB), in that case
> > > I prepare a second bootstrap.
> > >
> > >
> > This is basically how every other package manager does it..
>
> We had some subprefix support for Postgres at some point, but it is
> maintainance overhead again and not required that often...

IIRC joyent have support for this in their pkgsrc - it would be good
if someone(tm) had the time to look at merging it in...

David