Re: What Linux edition we should chose?

From: Mathieu De Zutter <mathieu(at)dezutter(dot)org>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What Linux edition we should chose?
Date: 2010-06-02 20:52:38
Message-ID: AANLkTimSxfJY6W0vWf6jNMlLRz0vuCsyEcTI4Z-jTe3g@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Adrian von Bidder <avbidder(at)fortytwo(dot)ch> wrote:
> On Monday 31 May 2010 10.29:22 Michal Szymanski wrote:
>> for Debian sometimes we had to wait many weeks for
>> official packages.
>
> Experiemntal packages can be installed directly into Debian unstable (sid)
> installations and can often be recompiled rather trivially into Debian
> testing.  Depending on how old Debian stable is, compiling there may take a
> bit more work (especially for building the stuff depending on the not so
> slowly moving targets like python, ruby etc.) but is certainly doable.

As many other people have this idea, you can just re-use their
back-porting work: backports.org
Never had a quality issue with these packages and updates are quickly
available. YMMV.

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Kind regards,
Mathieu

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