Re: BUG #18895: Installation failure on Fedora 42 due to missing repos

Hi,

On Wed, 2025-04-16 at 08:59 +0000, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
> Following the official availability of Fedora 42 on April 15 2025 I
> tried to upgrade some virtual machines with Fedora server x86-64.
>
> In all cases Postgres 17.4 was installed from PGDG repositories (not
> the builtin version)
>
> Postgres blocked the upgrade, so I removed all postgresql17* packages.
> The general upgrade of Fedora 41 to Fedora 42 then was successfull.

It takes some time to build the packages from scratch (with the stable
version of the OS), verifying and syncing them. Just finished syncing.
dnf system-upgrade should work. There are 2 known issues that I
documented here:

https://yum.postgresql.org/news/fedora-42-packages-released/

But:

>
> Trying to install the new repo from the installation website with:
>
> sudo dnf install -y
> https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/F-42-x86_64/pgdg-fedora-repo-latest.noarch.rpm
>
> resulted in:
>
> Failed to download files
>  Librepo error: Status code: 404 for
> https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/F-42-x86_64/pgdg-fedora-repo-latest.noarch.rpm
> (IP: 2a04:4e42:8e::820)

That is a problem indeed and we are working on fixing it. Until then you
can use this direct link for now:

https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/F-42-x86_64/pgdg-fedora-repo-42.0-38PGDG.noarch.rpm

-HTH
--
Devrim Gündüz
Open Source Solution Architect, PostgreSQL Major Contributor
Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR